Subject: Re: Could run NetBSD 3.x or 4.0 on AlphaServer 2100 ?
To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>
From: Anders Hjalmarsson <hjalmar@hjalmar.to>
List: port-alpha
Date: 04/12/2007 21:06:12
On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 08:38:46 PDT, Jason Thorpe wrote:
> On Apr 12, 2007, at 2:20 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> > I've run a 2100 as well. With the old model processors (I think that  
> > it's only the newer that don't boot).
> > I also had a problem with the clock. hz should be 512, but for some  
> > reason NetBSD thinks that it should be 1024.
> 
> Hm, I wonder if this is broken in NetBSD/alpha in general, or if the  
> 2100 is a special case.
> 
> -- thorpej

No, I think it is specific to the 2000 and 2100, at least my DEC 3000
behave correctly with hz=1024.

-hjalmar