Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 12:18:47 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG, src-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf files files.powerpc Message-ID: <20051125111847.GA98635@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <78BD39C8-FD54-407D-B80F-6418BCA9B604@nlsystems.com> References: <200511221712.jAMHCnf0066273@repoman.freebsd.org> <200511221307.14098.jhb@freebsd.org> <20051122195639.F16812@newtrinity.zeist.de> <20051122191619.GA79281@freebie.xs4all.nl> <78BD39C8-FD54-407D-B80F-6418BCA9B604@nlsystems.com>
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On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 03:41:44PM +0000, Doug Rabson wrote.. > > On 22 Nov 2005, at 19:16, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > >On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 07:56:39PM +0100, Marius Strobl wrote.. > >> > >>On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 01:07:12PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: > >>> > >>>On Tuesday 22 November 2005 12:12 pm, Marius Strobl wrote: > >>>>marius 2005-11-22 17:12:49 UTC > >>>> > >>>> FreeBSD src repository > >>>> > >>>> Modified files: > >>>> sys/conf files files.powerpc > >>>> Log: > >>>> Move zs.c from files to files.powerpc as zs(4) by now is only > >>>>supported > >>>> on powerpc (more or less...). That way people updating from > >>>>FreeBSD 5 to > >>>> FreeBSD 6 and beyond on sparc64 will get an error from config > >>>>(8) rather > >>>> than a mysterious compile error when they have a stale 'device > >>>>zs' in > >>>> their kernel config file. > >>>> > >>>> MFC after: 2 weeks > >>> > >>>I think some Alpha machines (4100?) also use zs(4) for serial > >>>console. > >>> > >> > >>I meant the zs(4) in sys/dev/zs formerly shared between FreeBSD/ > >>powerpc > >>and FreeBSD/sparc64; FreeBSD/alpha has a separate driver for z8530 in > >>sys/alpha/tlsb (wasn't TurboLaser support disabled and scheduled for > >>deorbit some time ago?). > > > >We are no longer building GENERIC with Tlaser support. Matt no longer > >has access to the hardware at NASA Ames which makes testing quite > >difficult. > >I have still access to one at work, but that one is destined to go > >soonish. > > How sad. The first ever alpha system that ran FreeBSD was a sketchy Well, it has a neighbour in the next rack that would be great to have FreeBSD run on: a 2-CPU Marvel (EV7) box. > emulation of a TurboLaser system (SimOS). I wrote the zs driver to > access the SimOS virtual serial console... Ah, never knew SIMOS was that one. > The first physical hardware to run FreeBSD/alpha I'm not sure of. I > seem to remember racing Drew Gallatin to get the thing up. It was > probably either a DEC 433au or a no-name 164lx. Happy times... My first Alpha was a Flamingo (DEC3000/500), later I had a Jensen (2000/300) on my desk at work. Neither ran FreeBSD :), it was OSF/1 1.2 in those days. Wilko -- Wilko Bulte wilko@FreeBSD.org
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