On Sat, Dec 04, 1999 at 09:56:34AM +0100, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> As Andrew Gillham wrote ...
> > Lord Isildur writes:
> > > 
> > [...]
> > > 
> > > certainly, if anyone _needs_ to use BSD with MILO for some strange
> > > reason, it'd be better to modify MILO than BSD. 
> 
> Wasn't there a problem with the PALcode that ARC brings you?
> (memory is dim here..)

MILO provides its own PALcode.

> 
> > Ok, stupid question..  Is it possible to build a 'boot' for NetBSD that
> > can be loaded by MILO, and have this boot then load the kernel?  Rather
> > than hacking MILO to load the kernel directly, or hacking the kernel to
> > be loadable directly?  After all, isn't 'boot' responsible for reading in
> > the kernel, and starting it?  The differences between SRM devices and MILO
> > devices should be hidden from the kernel.  
> > 
> > For the average Joe, using the ARC/AlphaBIOS menus to setup booting Linux
> > and/or BSD, etc isn't so bad.  Also, the ARC console can boot from some
> > NCR controllers that the SRM can't, etc.  Hmm, I wonder if the ARC firmware
> 
> Most/some ARC's (??) can also handle an Adaptec 2940[UW] card.
> 
> > supports additional video cards also?
> 
> On some machines yes. For example my Miata accepts video cards while in
> ARC that it does not (unless you pci_device_override) in SRM. Which makes
> me wonder why the Pyxis bug is not relevant to NT BTW.

What's the Pyxis bug?

> 
> Wilko

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