Subject: RE: Is the UP1000 with a 21264 supported under NetBSD/alpha?
To: 'Carl Lowenstein' <cdl@mpl.ucsd.edu>
From: David Woyciesjes <DAW@yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu>
List: port-alpha
Date: 04/27/2000 12:40:48
> NetBSD in it's place? Since this is a flavor of Linux...
You will have stepped on a lot of sensitive toes with that remark.
NetBSD is not at all a flavor of Linux.
DOH! Uhhh... oops! Apologies are due to all, then I guess. They way I
understood is was that they were derived from the same point, and they are
similar in many respects.
Goes to show how much (history) I know...
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carl Lowenstein [SMTP:cdl@mpl.ucsd.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2000 12:24 PM
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> Subject: RE: Is the UP1000 with a 21264 supported under NetBSD/alpha?
>
> > From: David Woyciesjes <DAW@yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu>
> > To: "'Sven Dietrich'" <spock@sled.gsfc.nasa.gov>
> > Cc: port-alpha@netbsd.org
> > Subject: RE: Is the UP1000 with a 21264 supported under NetBSD/alpha?
> > Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 12:23:00 -0400
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> >
> > Kevin P. Neal ---
> > I have 2 Multias, and they both have ArcBIOS for NT, and SRM..
> > Sven ---
> > If it gives you the option to load Linux, shouldn't you then be able to
> load
> > NetBSD in it's place? Since this is a flavor of Linux...
>
> You will have stepped on a lot of sensitive toes with that remark.
> NetBSD is not at all a flavor of Linux.
>
> The real problem is in loading the PALcode into the Alpha. NetBSD
> needs the VMS/DecUnix/Tru64 flavor of PALcode. Linux brings along
> its own in MILO, and Milo can be loaded by ARC.
>
> carl