28 messages in org.freebsd.freebsd-alphaRe: alpha PC| From | Sent On | Attachments |
|---|---|---|
| Don | Feb 4, 1999 4:32 am | |
| Adauto Souza | Feb 4, 1999 4:39 am | |
| Andrew Gallatin | Feb 4, 1999 6:09 am | |
| Doug Rabson | Feb 4, 1999 6:22 am | |
| Joerg Czeranski | Feb 4, 1999 6:40 am | |
| Andrew Gallatin | Feb 4, 1999 6:53 am | |
| Scot Elliott | Feb 4, 1999 6:56 am | |
| Stuart Krivis | Feb 4, 1999 7:28 am | |
| Martin Heller | Feb 4, 1999 8:19 am | |
| Todd Vierling | Feb 4, 1999 8:26 am | |
| Ted Spradley | Feb 4, 1999 8:33 am | |
| Stuart Krivis | Feb 4, 1999 8:42 am | |
| Ted Spradley | Feb 4, 1999 8:47 am | |
| Matthew Jacob | Feb 4, 1999 9:41 am | |
| Don | Feb 4, 1999 7:26 pm | |
| Don | Feb 4, 1999 7:46 pm | |
| Peter Wemm | Feb 4, 1999 7:54 pm | |
| Terry Lambert | Feb 4, 1999 8:08 pm | |
| Jason Thorpe | Feb 4, 1999 8:42 pm | |
| Jason Thorpe | Feb 4, 1999 8:48 pm | |
| Peter Wemm | Feb 4, 1999 10:01 pm | |
| Christian Weisgerber | Feb 5, 1999 2:09 am | |
| Scot Elliott | Feb 5, 1999 2:51 am | |
| Christian Weisgerber | Feb 5, 1999 1:35 pm | |
| Don | Feb 5, 1999 1:45 pm | |
| John Birrell | Feb 5, 1999 1:56 pm | |
| Don | Feb 5, 1999 4:50 pm | |
| Doug Rabson | Feb 9, 1999 11:59 am |
| Subject: | Re: alpha PC | |
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| From: | Doug Rabson (df...@nlsystems.com.demon.co.uk) | |
| Date: | Feb 9, 1999 11:59:55 am | |
| List: | org.freebsd.freebsd-alpha | |
On 5 Feb 1999, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
Don <do...@calis.BlackSun.org> wrote:
FreeBSD does not yet support booting from AlphaBIOS. The FreeBSD Alpha team is working on a solution for this problem
Is it? Everything I've seen mentioned here so far has been very tentative. I'm in the process of acquiring an Alpha. However, that's going to be a Samsung 164UX board, so I'll initially be forced to run Linux. Whom should I contact, if I ever decide that it might be within my abilities to contribute something?
Yes it is. The current status is that we can build a version of the FreeBSD kernel loader which runs under ARC and can load kernels from UFS filesystems. Thats the easy part. Next will be setting up the kernel's runtime environment (palcode, HWRPB) and attempting to actually run a kernel.
Unfortunately, we haven't had much success so far in running anything at all on the Samsung 164UX. So far, not even linload.exe will run on Stefan's board which doesn't seem right :-(.
I'll make an announcement here when there is something worth announcing :-).
-- Doug Rabson Mail: df...@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037
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