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Date:      Fri, 8 Dec 2000 22:53:58 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
To:        wkb@freebie.demon.nl (Wilko Bulte)
Cc:        msmith@freebsd.org (Mike Smith), tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert), diz@cafes.net (Mike Eldridge), freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Borg SRM? (was: Lynx test / 2nd attempt)
Message-ID:  <200012082253.PAA26976@usr01.primenet.com>
In-Reply-To: <20001208231455.A1245@freebie.demon.nl> from "Wilko Bulte" at Dec 08, 2000 11:14:55 PM

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> > > The most useful thing I see coming out of this is that people
> > > with Adaptec Controllers get paid to do the loader work on the
> > > AlphaBIOS, and the loader is known to work.
> > 
> > Why?  Why not just push Compaq to bring back the already-extant SRM 
> > support for Adaptec controllers into their other SRM families?
> 
> A waste of time to try this. Especially for all non-current hardware.

That was my take, too, particularly since Linux appears to
have already worked around the problem.  I think the only
chance is to make FreeBSD work with the available images for
a given platform, not expect new images.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.


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