Subject: Re: Q: Compaq, *BSD and 'Linux-only' AlphaBIOS (fwd)
To: None <mjacob@feral.com>
From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
List: port-alpha
Date: 12/04/1999 17:26:49
> The SRM vs. AlphaBios/ARC issues are a phantom. *BSD has a long way to go
> to fully support the SRM capapble machines before worrying about platforms
> which don't have SRM. This is a sideshow. I would have said it was more
> critical if Tru64 died, but much to &my& surprise it was NT-Alpha that
> walked the plank, not DUh (now Tru64). Given that Tru64 is very
> successfully selling on the leading new Dompaq platforms (and depends on
> SRM), I rather doubt *BSD will get all that left behind because we've not
> gotten ARC/AlphaBios yet.

If you know something I don't about Alpha Processor Inc's machines, I'd 
love to hear it.  They are only shipping AlphaBIOS, since there is MILO 
code for their systems.

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