[ I added port-alpha due to the SRM content. ]

> not good. maybe some day AMD64 systems (or other such cheap&fast) will be
> available without PC BIOS at all, with some other firmware similar to
> Alpha SRM or maybe something like this on Mac's, without 1MB of code in OS
> needed just to know how to configure devices without much success.

Alpha SRM is very nice but it still has serious problems.

What we need is source code to the firmware.

Does anyone have the source code to SRM?

Can NetBSD use "LinuxBIOS" ?

http://linuxbios.org/index.php/Supported_Motherboards