Subject: Re: Q: Compaq, *BSD and 'Linux-only' AlphaBIOS (fwd)
To: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
From: Charles M. Hannum <root@ihack.net>
List: port-alpha
Date: 12/08/1999 03:43:58
Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> writes:

> The only problem with this argument is there are a few machines that
> nobody ever made SRM for.  Like the XL266 and the 300XL.  They don't
> trouble us because we don't have them.  But we don't have them because 
> they don't run BSD.

According to Jim Paradis, SRM exists for all boards produced by
Digital.  It's what Digital/Compaq uses to test the boards in-house.
They simply didn't release it for some models, due to the flarghing NT
licensing crap.