Subject: Re: Q: Compaq, *BSD and 'Linux-only' AlphaBIOS (fwd)
To: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>
From: Greg Johnson <gjohnson@physics.clarku.edu>
List: port-alpha
Date: 12/04/1999 17:36:53
On Sat, Dec 04, 1999 at 09:56:34AM +0100, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> As Andrew Gillham wrote ...
> > Lord Isildur writes:
> > >
> > [...]
> > >
> > > certainly, if anyone _needs_ to use BSD with MILO for some strange
> > > reason, it'd be better to modify MILO than BSD.
>
> Wasn't there a problem with the PALcode that ARC brings you?
> (memory is dim here..)
MILO provides its own PALcode.
>
> > Ok, stupid question.. Is it possible to build a 'boot' for NetBSD that
> > can be loaded by MILO, and have this boot then load the kernel? Rather
> > than hacking MILO to load the kernel directly, or hacking the kernel to
> > be loadable directly? After all, isn't 'boot' responsible for reading in
> > the kernel, and starting it? The differences between SRM devices and MILO
> > devices should be hidden from the kernel.
> >
> > For the average Joe, using the ARC/AlphaBIOS menus to setup booting Linux
> > and/or BSD, etc isn't so bad. Also, the ARC console can boot from some
> > NCR controllers that the SRM can't, etc. Hmm, I wonder if the ARC firmware
>
> Most/some ARC's (??) can also handle an Adaptec 2940[UW] card.
>
> > supports additional video cards also?
>
> On some machines yes. For example my Miata accepts video cards while in
> ARC that it does not (unless you pci_device_override) in SRM. Which makes
> me wonder why the Pyxis bug is not relevant to NT BTW.
What's the Pyxis bug?
>
> Wilko
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