Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1998 18:30:03 -0400 From: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@panix.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: interesting quote from http://cnls.lanl.gov/avalon/FAQ.html#A1end Message-ID: <19981009183003.A16271@panix.com> In-Reply-To: <199810092134.OAA27092@usr01.primenet.com>; from Terry Lambert on Fri, Oct 09, 1998 at 09:34:21PM %2B0000 References: <19981009151839.A6704@panix.com> <199810092134.OAA27092@usr01.primenet.com>
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On Fri, Oct 09, 1998 at 09:34:21PM +0000, Terry Lambert wrote: > > 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. With a crippled VM system that couldn't use the whole 64 bits of address space, among other miscellaneous ways to lose, at least last time I checked. That was quite a while ago, however. Maybe they've stopped trying quite so hard to lose in recent implementations. Thor To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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