From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Oct 9 14:34:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA25375 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 14:34:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp04.primenet.com (smtp04.primenet.com [206.165.6.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA25370 for ; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 14:34:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr01.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA11134; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 14:34:28 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr01.primenet.com(206.165.6.201) via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpd011112; Fri Oct 9 14:34:23 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr01.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA27092; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 14:34:21 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199810092134.OAA27092@usr01.primenet.com> Subject: Re: interesting quote from http://cnls.lanl.gov/avalon/FAQ.html#A1end To: tls@rek.tjls.com Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1998 21:34:21 +0000 (GMT) Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19981009151839.A6704@panix.com> from "Thor Lancelot Simon" at Oct 9, 98 03:18:39 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Being able to write a boot loader is *not* the issue. > > The fact that the ARC or AlphaBIos console doesn't include PALcode that's > UNIX-friendly is the issue. The SRM console image includes VMS and OSF/1 > PALcode; NetBSd uses the OSF/1 PALcode. The ARC console includes Windows NT > PALcode; Linux hacks around this by including its own PALcode in MILO. Isn't this more of a case of us running a UNIX that isn't ARC PALcode friendly? I realize that this would require some substantial code changes to things like the platform specific VM code; but the payback is the ability to run on all the Alpha hardware out there. 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