FYI, no-go with booting FreeBSD-5.3 on AlphaServer ES40

David O'Brien obrien at freebsd.org
Wed Dec 15 08:20:55 PST 2004


On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 11:01:15PM +0100, Bernd Walter wrote:
> I have an implementation that should work for ES40 as well, but
> unfortunately there are some bugs I hadn't time to find yet.
> I thought about splitting it up and start commiting a few structural
> changes soon so FreeBSD at least knows it's limitations and can
> automatically reduce physical memory until the implementation is
> working.

Go Bernd, go! :-)
It would be great to get your work committed in some form.
Since Alpha is now Tier-2; you could commit it even in an ugly #ifdef
form where you might could get more testers, etc...

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-- David  (obrien at FreeBSD.org)


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