Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 17:43:50 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: cgd@pa.dec.com (Chris G. Demetriou) Cc: gallatin@CS.Duke.EDU, imp@village.org, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Alpha questions.. Message-ID: <199705160043.RAA16212@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <717.863741892@dnaunix.pa.dec.com> from "Chris G. Demetriou" at May 15, 97 05:18:12 pm
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> > Download milo & have a look. The palcode claims to be the OSF
> > PAL code.
>
> It is, but it is _not_ identical to the OSF PALcode in the SRM console
> firmware in several ways.
>
> At minimum:
>
> (1) there are some interfaces provided by the SRM console's
> OSF PALcode on some platforms which are not provided
> by the MILO OSF PALcode, and
>
> (2) machine-checking handling/logout frames are different.
(3) The SRM code for OSF/1 requires 32M. The Linux code only
requires 16M(*)
(*) according to the guy here at the University of Arizona who did the
Linux stuff.
Terry Lambert
terry@lambert.org
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