Subject: Re: Q: Compaq, *BSD and 'Linux-only' AlphaBIOS (fwd)
To: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
From: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com>
List: port-alpha
Date: 12/04/1999 20:58:37
On Sat, Dec 04, 1999 at 05:26:49PM -0800, Mike Smith wrote:
> > The SRM vs. AlphaBios/ARC issues are a phantom. *BSD has a long way to go
> > to fully support the SRM capapble machines before worrying about platforms
> > which don't have SRM. This is a sideshow. I would have said it was more
> > critical if Tru64 died, but much to &my& surprise it was NT-Alpha that
> > walked the plank, not DUh (now Tru64). Given that Tru64 is very
> > successfully selling on the leading new Dompaq platforms (and depends on
> > SRM), I rather doubt *BSD will get all that left behind because we've not
> > gotten ARC/AlphaBios yet.
> 
> If you know something I don't about Alpha Processor Inc's machines, I'd 
> love to hear it.  They are only shipping AlphaBIOS, since there is MILO 
> code for their systems.

Well, API certainly managed to ship Ross a machine with SRM so that he
could port NetBSD to their hardware.

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Thor Lancelot Simon	                                      tls@rek.tjls.com
	"And where do all these highways go, now that we are free?"