Date: Tue, 02 Jun 1998 10:02:15 -0700 From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov> To: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> Cc: Curt Sampson <cjs@portal.ca>, Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, mike@smith.net.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AlphaBIOS documentation Message-ID: <199806021702.KAA08928@lestat.nas.nasa.gov>
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On Tue, 2 Jun 1998 08:03:21 +0100 (BST) Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> wrote: > 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. Note, the publicly available MILO PALcode _is not_ the one that most MILO images use. The public MILO source is based on the EBDSK PALcode, which happens to not work very well. There are bugs in the TLB management code, etc. Jason R. Thorpe thorpej@nas.nasa.gov NASA Ames Research Center Home: +1 408 866 1912 NAS: M/S 258-5 Work: +1 650 604 0935 Moffett Field, CA 94035 Pager: +1 650 428 6939 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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