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Date:      Tue, 5 Dec 2000 21:05:13 +0100
From:      Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.demon.nl>
To:        Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: part numbers for 2100 5/300 processor modules?
Message-ID:  <20001205210513.M346@freebie.demon.nl>
In-Reply-To: <14893.18646.222048.868530@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>; from gallatin@cs.duke.edu on Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 03:01:45PM -0500
References:  <20001204155447.E1431@layer8.net> <14892.14352.956036.813077@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <20001205205555.H346@freebie.demon.nl> <14893.18646.222048.868530@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>

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On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 03:01:45PM -0500, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
> 
> Wilko Bulte writes:
>  > On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 07:41:47PM -0500, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
>  > 
>  > > Do you have one of these running FreeBSD?  I'm currently re-writing
>  > > the AlphaServer 2x000 support and I am looking for testers who have
>  > > any of the 2x000 series with an ExtIO module.  I'm also looking for
>  > 
>  > >From picking some brains at work I've been led to believe ExtIO never
>  > saw daylight on AS2100. AS2100A was introduced before ExtIO was released.
>  > 
>  > So, I would not worry too much about it ;)
> 
> That's comforting.  It brings up all sorts of nasty issues I'd rather
> not think about -- like having 2 sets of HAE registers.
> 
> If I finally get you booting, I might be ready to commit the code in
> light of this new information..

I just also saw the same info in some service training docs for the 2100.
So it might be correct. We can always put this in HARDWARE.TXT (i.e.
I will do that of course).

Tomorrow we will know more. Today I first had to remove the broken
512Mb memory module from the Lynx. FreeBSD does not tolerate memory errors,
the ECC needs CPU help and that is not given. Instead a panic is done ;-)

W/
-- 
Wilko Bulte  	 					Arnhem, the Netherlands
wilko@freebsd.org  	http://www.freebsd.org 		http://www.nlfug.nl



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