Subject: Re: Could run NetBSD 3.x or 4.0 on AlphaServer 2100 ?
To: Anders Hjalmarsson <hjalmar@hjalmar.to>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: port-alpha
Date: 04/12/2007 21:54:24
On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 09:06:12PM +0200, Anders Hjalmarsson wrote:
> 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.

This is also what I recall from my experiments with a 2100 some years ago.

-- 
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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