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Date:      Mon, 27 Aug 2001 22:04:18 -0700
From:      Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Ia64 and ALPHA (+arm, sparc?) kernel developers: 
Message-ID:  <20010828050418.CCF9C380F@overcee.netplex.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0108271833220.74870-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> 

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Julian Elischer wrote:
> Actualy peter is most of the way through the alpha support as we speak.
> I wouldn't know what the alpha looks like from a architecture pov
> if it came and kicked me..
> I did some small parts already but peter just checked in more in P4.


Latest news:  The alpha made it to single user... (!).  There is still
a problem, but I will find that shortly.

I have not yet built GENERIC, just my tuned kernel.  Things like linux and
osf1 compat still need doing.


FWIW, the tail:
...
Timecounter "i8254"  frequency 1193182 Hz
ata0-slave: ata_command: timeout waiting for intr
ata0-slave: identify failed
acd0: CDROM <CD-540E> at ata0-master PIO4
Waiting 2 seconds for SCSI devices to settle
da0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
da0: <SEAGATE ST318404LW 0006> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device 
da0: 80.000MB/s transfers (40.000MHz, offset 63, 16bit), Tagged Queueing Enabled
da0: 17501MB (35843670 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 2231C)
da1 at ahc0 bus 0 target 1 lun 0
da1: <IBM DMVS18V 0250> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device 
da1: 80.000MB/s transfers (40.000MHz, offset 31, 16bit), Tagged Queueing Enabled
da1: 17501MB (35843670 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 2231C)
Mounting root from ufs:/dev/da0a
Enter full pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh: 
# ls

halted CPU 0

halt code = 2
kernel stack not valid halt
PC = fffffc0000553020

CPU 0 booting
...

"oops" :-)

> On Mon, 27 Aug 2001, David O'Brien wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 10:44:04PM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote:
> > > This compiles and runs pretty solidly on 386.
> > > it needs people who understand the other architectures to make
> > > the appropriate changes and send them to me (or check them int P4)
> > 
> > Have you even tried compiling this on beast.freebsd.org?  You didn't say.
> > 
> > Unfortuneatly the burdon is on you to make this work on the Alpha
> > platform before you commit it.
> > 
> > -- 
> > -- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
> > 
> 
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Cheers,
-Peter
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Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au
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