Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 11:05:10 -0800 (PST) From: Murray Stokely <murray@cdrom.com> To: Robert Huff <rhuff@cybercom.net> Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: horrible hack / SRM console Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990108105817.12481E-100000@pike.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: <199901081854.NAA01951@shell1.cybercom.net>
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On Fri, 8 Jan 1999, Robert Huff wrote: % > This is a perennial problem. At some point *BSD is going to have % > to consider how to work under ARC or AlphaBIOS. % % Last I heard this had been considered and rejected, based on: % % 1) the lack of difficulty in obtaining a SRM-using board, or % installing it afterward. Thats bogus because of the large number of DEC systems such as XL's and SX boards that ONLY ship with AlphaBIOS and can not under any circumstances be upgraded to SRM. Right now owners of any of the lower end Alpha workstations from the last few years are completely alienated with FreeBSD. % 2) ARC, while technically usable, is clearly The Wrong Choice. Ugly hack as it may be, MILO works very well for Linux. SRM users in the Linux camp actually seem very few and far between. Murray Stokely To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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