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From: Ben Huntsman <BHuntsman@mail2.cu-portland.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] bootalphapc
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Did you use the out-of-the-box bootalphapc, or some other method to get it =
going?  Also, is your filesystem running locally on the PWS, or from =
another machine via network?  How much trouble was all this?  Thanks!

-Ben

>>> andrey mirtchovski<mirtchov@cpsc.ucalgary.ca> 7/6/2004 9:13:41 AM >>>
On Fri, 2 Jul 2004 jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com wrote:

>=20
> Fixing problems like that is not usually too difficult,
> by looking at the *BSD code as has been mentioned.
> Jean Mehat did it recently for one
> of the Alpha DECstations.
>=20

my alpha is up officially, though there's still some IRQ weirdness to be
ironed out. thanks to Jean Mehat for the sources.

it is an Alpha Personal Workstation 500au:

alpha% cat '#P/cputype'
21164A 500
alpha% pci
0.12.0:	03.00.00 1011/000d 248 0:90000008 4194304
0.3.0:	02.00.00 1011/0019 240 0:00009001 128 1:80159000 128
0.7.0:	06.01.00 1080/c693 240
0.7.1:	01.01.80 1080/c693 222 0:000001f1 16 1:000003f5 16 4:000090a1 16
0.7.2:	01.01.00 1080/c693 223 0:00000171 16 1:00000375 16 4:80140000 =
65536
0.7.3:	0c.03.10 1080/c693 218 0:80158000 4096
alpha%=20

andrey