Date: Tue, 06 May 1997 21:21:00 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Chris Csanady <ccsanady@nyx.pr.mcs.net> Cc: Brandon Gillespie <brandon@cold.org>, FreeBSD-Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Alpha questions.. Message-ID: <6888.862978860@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 06 May 1997 20:51:23 CDT." <199705070151.UAA06731@nyx.pr.mcs.net>
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> Just out of curiosity, couldn't we use a large part of the NetBSD/alpha > machine dependant code? I would think that this would significantly > speed up a port.. Some of it, but there are other problems. For one thing, the NetBSD code requires the SRM console to be installed and everyone now agrees, for a variety of reasons, that the ARC console is the one to target. This will affect the boot code rather significantly. Jordan P.S. And if you don't understand the difference between the SRM and ARC consoles, please don't ask - I don't want to explain it and you don't want to know. :-)
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