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Date:      Tue, 2 Apr 2002 09:17:01 -0500 (EST)
From:      Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
To:        Roberto de Iriarte <roberto@spock.cl>
Cc:        freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Alphaserver 2100A success with 4.5-Release and GCC whoes.
Message-ID:  <15529.48477.957312.781154@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0204020123510.78159-100000@aromo.spock.cl>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0204020123510.78159-100000@aromo.spock.cl>

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Roberto de Iriarte writes:
 > 
 > Just wanted to let you know that 4.5-Release installs and runs
 > perfectly on the much discredited AS2100A (aka Lynx)

Cool.  I'm glad to hear it!


<..>
 > On a completely unrelated subject that might be of interest to Andrew
 > i've been doing some experiments with DRM for an ATI Rage 128 on linux,
 > that worked exellently on an AS800 with a 500Mhz 21164a, but only if the
 > modules where compiled with -O -mcpu=ev56, -O2 -mcpu=ev56 locking the 
 > machine completely. So, it seems the problems are not completely 
 > alleviated by -mcpu=ev56. 


That's too bad.  Well, its a good thing our compiler spits out:
cc1: warning: 
***
***	The -O2 flag TRIGGERS KNOWN OPTIMIZER BUGS ON THIS PLATFORM
***


Have you managed to build DRM on FreeBSD/alpha?

What is DRM, anyway?

Drew

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