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To: Curt Sampson <cjs@portal.ca>
Subject: Re: Alpha questions.. 
Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 14 May 1997 01:43:46 PDT."
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Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 07:14:05 -0600
From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
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In message <Pine.NEB.3.93.970514014153.408K-100000@gnostic.cynic.net> Curt Sampson writes:
: I seem to recall that you had to sign an NDA to get some of the
: ARC-related information, and thus the Linux developers can't actually
: release source code for some of their boot-related stuff. I may be
: wrong, though.

Thatis right.  Supposedly you have to do the same for the ARC BIOS
MIPS stuff, but I got my copy from a library that was throwing their
copy out...

Warner