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> > XFree86 runs just fine on Linux/Alpha.  Most of the drivers are
> > supported.
>=20
> Neither Linux/Alpha nor FreeBSD/alpha run on many of the systems that
> NetBSD/alpha runs on.
>=20
> In the real world, you can't just do inb()/outb() and expect=20
> to magically be
> talking to the device registers, on whatever bus it's on,=20
> assuming they're
> all packed the way they are on the x86... there is a similar=20
> issue with the
> mmap() of the framebuffer itself.
>=20
> Linux emulates the x86.  It _can_, because it doesn't run on=20
> the alphas
> with complex bus architectures.  I have NFC what FreeBSD does.

It is nice to know, however, that since it has been ported to alpha, =
the
code _should_ be pretty 64 bit friendly (hopefully it's not relying on =
the
kernel to do the offset corrections).  That should make moving over to
NetBSD a bit easier.

-Jon Lindgren
=A0Spear, Leeds & Kellogg
=A0(201) 332-3577, x4391
 jlindgren@slk.com <mailto:jlindgren@slk.com> =20

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