From owner-freebsd-alpha Sun Jun 20 14:59:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from cimlogic.com.au (cimlog.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.51.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4A8114CA3 for ; Sun, 20 Jun 1999 14:59:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jb@cimlogic.com.au) Received: (from jb@localhost) by cimlogic.com.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) id IAA06848; Mon, 21 Jun 1999 08:25:04 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from jb) From: John Birrell Message-Id: <199906202225.IAA06848@cimlogic.com.au> Subject: Re: PALcode (was: Anyone up for an exorcism?) In-Reply-To: from Bruce Walter at "Jun 20, 1999 11:23:23 am" To: walter@fortean.com (Bruce Walter) Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 08:25:04 +1000 (EST) Cc: jb@cimlogic.com.au, alpha@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Bruce Walter wrote: > > Obtaining up-to-date-for-each-system sources for the palcode is > > problematic. It would be nice if Compaq would just release the sources > > and let us maintain them after they make boards/systems obsolete. > > Has anyone spoken to them about this? With rumours that Compaq may ditch > the whole alpha lot (to Samsung maybe?), I wonder if it may become possible. > MILO sources are distributed with older PALcode sources, and given their > close ties to Linux... If anyone can persuade the right person in Compaq, we'd all be grateful. -- John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/ CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message