Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1998 21:34:21 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: tls@rek.tjls.com Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: interesting quote from http://cnls.lanl.gov/avalon/FAQ.html#A1end Message-ID: <199810092134.OAA27092@usr01.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <19981009151839.A6704@panix.com> from "Thor Lancelot Simon" at Oct 9, 98 03:18:39 pm
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> 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
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