Date: Sun, 5 Dec 1999 16:15:11 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> Cc: Lord Isildur <isildur@guild.net>, Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>, alpha@freebsd.org, port-alpha@netbsd.org Subject: Re: Q: Compaq, *BSD and 'Linux-only' AlphaBIOS (fwd) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912051614130.23924-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <14408.29267.776501.133049@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
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On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > Lord Isildur writes: > > > > I consider SRM to be the way to go, and i think instead the convoluted > > hacks that things like MILO had to go through are the rsult of using the > > ARC/ALphaBIOS _instead_ of using SRM. Now that Compaq has released SRMs > > for so many more models and eliminated the need to buy the developer kit, > > i see no reason to consider ARC anymore _at all_. It was a cheap second > > The only problem with this argument is there are a few machines that > nobody ever made SRM for. Like the XL266 and the 300XL. They don't > trouble us because we don't have them. But we don't have them because > they don't run BSD. > > And then there is the new UP1000 board which claims to have AlphaBios > only & to support linux. > (http://www.alpha-processor.com/products/up1000-board.asp) > I think this might be just paperware, as I cannot find any mention of it > anywhere except at Alpha Processor Inc's site. > > It sure would be nice if they just open-sourced SRM. The UP2000 seems to be very similar to 264DP (?) but UP1000 has a new AMD chipset. I have no documentation for it at all. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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