From owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 15 11:56:14 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5496216A4CF for ; Mon, 15 Mar 2004 11:56:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail6.speakeasy.net (mail6.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.206]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18DC243D41 for ; Mon, 15 Mar 2004 11:56:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 4959 invoked from network); 15 Mar 2004 19:56:13 -0000 Received: from dsl027-160-063.atl1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) encrypted SMTP for ; 15 Mar 2004 19:56:13 -0000 Received: from 10.50.40.205 (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i2FJt42C059716; Mon, 15 Mar 2004 14:55:59 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) From: John Baldwin To: alpha@FreeBSD.org Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 10:48:17 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.6 References: <000301c4083a$32dc72d0$d915a8c0@tyr> <40526AFE.8090009@theriver.com> <002501c408c5$99e75270$d915a8c0@tyr> In-Reply-To: <002501c408c5$99e75270$d915a8c0@tyr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200403151048.17650.jhb@FreeBSD.org> X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on server.baldwin.cx cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DAC 960 Tools X-BeenThere: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Alpha List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 19:56:14 -0000 On Saturday 13 March 2004 01:36 am, Chris Martin wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > Bernd Walter wrote: > > > This was already topic in january, but I don't now what happened then. > > > > That would partially be my fault. I posted the bug-report for the alpha > > 2100 > > > machine check and Drew Gallatin gave me a patch to try. Unfortunaltly the > > 2100a machine I have, is running VMS for a project I'm currently working > > on. I > > > had the machine down for a few days while I replaced some disks, but I > > had > > to > > > put the machine back up before I could try the patches. I should have the > > project complete sometime this month and I'll have time to try the > > patches. In > > > fact I'm getting another 2100 with 3 cpus and about 512MB of memory next > > week > > > and I may be able to try the patches out on that machine. I'm not sure if > > the > > > machine checks were endemic to just the 2100a or encompassed the whole > > 2100 > > > family. Freebsd 4.6 in a uniprocessor mode ran pretty good as I recall. > > > > If you have the time and inclination and a 2100 you can try Drew's > > patches. > > I have 2100 (5/250) and the inclination! If you can give me Drew's patches > and a howto use them I will give them a go. Please note that I am no coder, > but I do at least understand how C and makefiles are laid out. > > Any suggestions where I can either get a SIMM board or 512MB card from, > cheap? My 2100 on has 128MB of RAM. > > As a side note, 4.9 works fine, even with SMP. It even has the double speed > clock issue resolved on the ISO! Yay! 4.9 doesn't support SMP, only 5.x does, and the clock issue only kicks in when using multiple CPUs. -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org