Subject: Re: Q: Compaq, *BSD and 'Linux-only' AlphaBIOS (fwd)
To: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-alpha
Date: 12/05/1999 16:27:16
On Sun, 05 Dec 1999 16:24:45 -0800
Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG> wrote:
> > Their 21264 (264DP) has an SRM for it!
>
> As I said, "if you know something I don't". 8) At the time of writing
> I was under the impression that they'd given up on SRM with the PC164LX
> boards. I'm extremely happy to have been proven wrong (and I've
> scribbled a whole pile of stuff off my API to-do list).
Like was said here before, API sent an SRM-loaded DP264 to Ross Harvey
for porting NetBSD to it, and there is even a DP264 on the API web site
which is claimed to have "Tru64 UNIX available".
-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>