From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Dec 8 14:54:23 2000 From owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 8 14:54:21 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from smtp03.primenet.com (smtp03.primenet.com [206.165.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56EE537B400; Fri, 8 Dec 2000 14:54:21 -0800 (PST) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp03.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA09538; Fri, 8 Dec 2000 15:52:04 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr01.primenet.com(206.165.6.201) via SMTP by smtp03.primenet.com, id smtpdAAA4SaaBs; Fri Dec 8 15:51:50 2000 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr01.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA26976; Fri, 8 Dec 2000 15:53:58 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <200012082253.PAA26976@usr01.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Borg SRM? (was: Lynx test / 2nd attempt) To: wkb@freebie.demon.nl (Wilko Bulte) Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2000 22:53:58 +0000 (GMT) Cc: msmith@freebsd.org (Mike Smith), tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert), diz@cafes.net (Mike Eldridge), freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20001208231455.A1245@freebie.demon.nl> from "Wilko Bulte" at Dec 08, 2000 11:14:55 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: tlambert@usr01.primenet.com Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > > The most useful thing I see coming out of this is that people > > > with Adaptec Controllers get paid to do the loader work on the > > > AlphaBIOS, and the loader is known to work. > > > > Why? Why not just push Compaq to bring back the already-extant SRM > > support for Adaptec controllers into their other SRM families? > > A waste of time to try this. Especially for all non-current hardware. That was my take, too, particularly since Linux appears to have already worked around the problem. I think the only chance is to make FreeBSD work with the available images for a given platform, not expect new images. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message