Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 20:48:38 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: hsu@FreeBSD.ORG (Jeffrey Hsu) Cc: freebsd-alpha@hub.freebsd.org Subject: Re: future of slpha port Message-ID: <199806032048.NAA01096@usr09.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199806030118.SAA22587@hub.freebsd.org> from "Jeffrey Hsu" at Jun 2, 98 06:18:14 pm
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> I was a lone voice in a room of Linux nuts, > but I perserved until the manufacturer that lent me the two units > requested the units back, at which time I had to stop working on > the port. A darn shame too, as I had made great progress and was about > to integrate the NetBSD pieces into FreeBSD. It just about broke > my heart when this project ended. It was a strange recall, at that. The recall was not from a technical person, it was from the sales manager, who hadn't even initiated a loan. I asked if I could purchase the thing instead of returning it, but the answer was (strangely) "No". I asked about purchasing a replacement several times, but the guy never returned my calls; a sales manager who didn't want to sell... very bizarre. After Jeffrey had the PCI code up, I made some minor console patches for minimal usability of "vi" (the NetBSD generic console code was... strange; it had a 5 line scroll trigger margin for use on slow bitmap displays), and had a NetBSD/Alpha booting to single user mode with FreeBSD's VM system. This was back before the huge set of changes John checked in for optimization and so on. I basically gave up trying to track the changes on my PPC at that point. None of my stuff made it back into NetBSD, unless Jeffrey forwarded the console patches. I was also very upset, since the request for the machine back came pretty much out of the blue, with no warning whatsoever. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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