Subject: Re: Are PC164 based alphas supported?
To: None <mjacob@feral.com>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-alpha
Date: 08/10/1997 16:34:09
On Wed, 6 Aug 1997 13:40:04 -0700 
 Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> wrote:

 > >Also the vendor was saying that the SRM might not work with the newer
 > >lx based boards.  Any truth to this?
 > 
 > That might be the new lasered 21164 chips that have a hardwired dependency
 > (I believe) for the NT PAL code.

Yah, the not "UNIX-enabled" chips have the superpage hardwired where the
NT PALcode expects it to be (which happens to match the MIPS kseg location).

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