Date: Tue, 2 Jun 1998 08:03:21 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: Curt Sampson <cjs@portal.ca> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, mike@smith.net.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AlphaBIOS documentation Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980602075834.2250C-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96.980601144428.15441S-100000@ascetic.portal.ca>
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On Mon, 1 Jun 1998, Curt Sampson wrote: > On Mon, 1 Jun 1998, Doug Rabson wrote: > > > Freely distributable source of OSF > > palcode for several platforms is available. > > Excellent! Where does one get this? And why isn't it on the EBDSK > or in the Linux source (both of which contain something that pretty > closely resembles OSF PALcode, but not closely enough that it would > run DU or NetBSD)? Which parts of the PALcode in the Linux source are incompatible? I think Jason said that it was just the handling of the logout area. I don't think I will have any real problem using this code for FreeBSD. The main problem for NetBSD with milo would be with the HWRPB, I think. Milo only provides an extremely rough sketch of this. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 951 1891 Fax: +44 181 381 1039 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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