From owner-freebsd-doc Tue Aug 3 11:10: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk [193.237.89.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE0E4152EE for ; Tue, 3 Aug 1999 11:09:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: from kilt.nothing-going-on.org (kilt.nothing-going-on.org [192.168.1.18]) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA84036; Tue, 3 Aug 1999 19:04:20 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik@catkin.nothing-going-on.org) Received: (from nik@localhost) by kilt.nothing-going-on.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA40688; Tue, 3 Aug 1999 15:48:34 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik@catkin.nothing-going-on.org) Date: Tue, 3 Aug 1999 15:48:34 +0100 From: Nik Clayton To: Chris Costello Cc: alu@alphalink.com.au, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Contacting FreeBSD Message-ID: <19990803154834.C39416@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> References: <9908020504.AA03907@localhost.alphalink.com.au> <19990802082010.F18888@holly.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <19990802082010.F18888@holly.dyndns.org>; from Chris Costello on Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 08:20:10AM -0500 Organization: FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 08:20:10AM -0500, Chris Costello wrote: > On Mon, Aug 02, 1999, Operator wrote: > > Dear freebsd-doc, > > > > It seems that FreeBSD supports only x86 hardware?... > > No, it's stated in the handbook that FreeBSD supports both > Intel x86 and DEC Alpha architectures. But. . . if you take a look at the web site, you'll see the main page certainly gives the overwhelming impression that we're PC only. I've also just spent 5 minutes looking (on behalf of a friend) for information about which Alpha's we support. www.freebsd.org/alpha/ didn't help, and the release notes for 3.2 only mention "alpha" in respect of a gdb upgrade. In particular, the "supported configurations" section of the release notes doesn't mention alpha at all. I'll drop a note to -alpha mailing list mentioning this, and ask if anyone's interested in working on it. N -- [intentional self-reference] can be easily accommodated using a blessed, non-self-referential dummy head-node whose own object destructor severs the links. -- Tom Christiansen in <375143b5@cs.colorado.edu> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message