Re: [9fans] Bootstrapping Alpha

[jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com]

I may have this wrong but I believe the alphapc kernel you have was done
on a PC164 motherboard, and has recently been made to work on the LX164
motherboard (very similar). I think the Miata is a bit different in how it
handles interrupts and PCI resources, and I'll defer to David Hogan as to
how hard it would be to make it work.

--jim

On Thu Sep 20 12:16:53 EDT 2001, packer@bway.net wrote:
> This is an Alpha Personal Workstation, 500a.
>
> I'm not sure what the motherboard model number
> is. It is called a Miata, this version is probably
> the MX5, as opposed to the later MiataGL, which
> I think has USB ports and various bug fixes.
>
> It came with a Matrox Millenium II, which I
> replaced with an S3 card I thought would be
> more compatible with the Plan 9 alpha kernel.
>
> Miata MX5
> CPU: Alpha 21164 EV5 Revision 7.2
> QLOGIC 1040 ultra-wide scsi
> S3 Virge/DX
> Toshiba CD-ROM
>
>
>
> jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com wrote:
>
> > No, the system would not freeze like that if it were an IL problem.
> > David Hogan recently got the alpha kernel to work on a newer motherboard,
> > perhaps if you can give the motherboard model number and the peripheral
> > configuration we can check with the current code.