cvs commit: src/sys/conf files files.powerpc

[Wilko Bulte]

On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 03:41:44PM +0000, Doug Rabson wrote..
> 
> On 22 Nov 2005, at 19:16, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> 
> >On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 07:56:39PM +0100, Marius Strobl wrote..
> >>
> >>On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 01:07:12PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
> >>>
> >>>On Tuesday 22 November 2005 12:12 pm, Marius Strobl wrote:
> >>>>marius      2005-11-22 17:12:49 UTC
> >>>>
> >>>>  FreeBSD src repository
> >>>>
> >>>>  Modified files:
> >>>>    sys/conf             files files.powerpc
> >>>>  Log:
> >>>>  Move zs.c from files to files.powerpc as zs(4) by now is only  
> >>>>supported
> >>>>  on powerpc (more or less...). That way people updating from  
> >>>>FreeBSD 5 to
> >>>>  FreeBSD 6 and beyond on sparc64 will get an error from config 
> >>>>(8) rather
> >>>>  than a mysterious compile error when they have a stale 'device  
> >>>>zs' in
> >>>>  their kernel config file.
> >>>>
> >>>>  MFC after:      2 weeks
> >>>
> >>>I think some Alpha machines (4100?) also use zs(4) for serial  
> >>>console.
> >>>
> >>
> >>I meant the zs(4) in sys/dev/zs formerly shared between FreeBSD/ 
> >>powerpc
> >>and FreeBSD/sparc64; FreeBSD/alpha has a separate driver for z8530 in
> >>sys/alpha/tlsb (wasn't TurboLaser support disabled and scheduled for
> >>deorbit some time ago?).
> >
> >We are no longer building GENERIC with Tlaser support.  Matt no longer
> >has access to the hardware at NASA Ames which makes testing quite  
> >difficult.
> >I have still access to one at work, but that one is destined to go
> >soonish.
> 
> How sad. The first ever alpha system that ran FreeBSD was a sketchy  

Well, it has a neighbour in the next rack that would be great to have
FreeBSD run on:  a 2-CPU Marvel (EV7) box.

> emulation of a TurboLaser system (SimOS). I wrote the zs driver to  
> access the SimOS virtual serial console...

Ah, never knew SIMOS was that one.

> The first physical hardware to run FreeBSD/alpha I'm not sure of. I  
> seem to remember racing Drew Gallatin to get the thing up. It was  
> probably either a DEC 433au or a no-name 164lx. Happy times...

My first Alpha was a Flamingo (DEC3000/500), later I had a Jensen (2000/300)
on my desk at work.  Neither ran FreeBSD :), it was OSF/1 1.2 in those days.

Wilko

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Wilko Bulte				wilko at FreeBSD.org