well, my AlphaStation 400 4/233 now says:

Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
        The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.

NetBSD 1.0A (GENERIC) #48: Tue May  9 19:10:25 EDT 1995
    cgd@macallan.dssc.cs.cmu.edu:/usr/src.L/sys/arch/alpha/compile/GENERIC
DEC 2100/A50 ("Avanti"), serial number 0x0 0x0
variation: 0x5, revision 0x0
8192 byte page size, 2 processors.
real mem = 66150400 (1171456 reserved for PROM)
avail mem = 55631872
using 409 buffers containing 3350528 bytes of memory
mainbus0 (root)
cpu0 at mainbus0: EV45 (21064A), UNKNOWN MINOR TYPE (2)
cpu0: VAX FP support, IEEE FP support, reserved bits: 0x4
isa0 at mainbus0
clock0 at isa0 port 0x70-0x71: mc146818 or compatible
pci0 at mainbus0
pci0 bus 0 device 6: NCR 810 SCSI not configured
pci0 bus 0 device 7: Intel 82378 SIO (PCI->ISA bridge) not supported
pci0 bus 0 device 11: DEC TGA (21040) graphics not supported
pci0 bus 0 device 12: DEC TULIP ethernet not supported
root device? sd0
panic: cannot mount root
syncing disks... done
rebooting...


(that's from the serial console; i just fixed the problem that people
were seeing when using the serial on PC-ish machines to test-boot
kernels.)

i've not done any of the ISA interrupt handling code, nor ISA DMA
code, nor most of the generic PCI code (except for configuration-space
read and write).  There's still a long way to go before this is
usable, but there is visible progress.  8-)


later,

chris