On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 12:23 PM, ron minnich wrote: > Anyway, the question: with LinuxBIOS, we shipped a GPL-ed PALcode > implementation. It was pretty dumb, it just did 1:1 virt to phys mapping > for example, but it worked. I've always believed that was the only open > source or at least GPL'ed PALcode out there -- can you tell me if I got > this right? I have no reason to believe it is otherwise - i.e. I have no knowledge of anything else. Your comment about PALcode being used as leverage, I never saw that in practice and I worked with a lot of external folks. I think it was more of a delta-T between the time DEC engineering released the code and DEC-Semi got it to the field and the integrators into their systems. I don't think DEC systems sales tried to compete with the DEC-Semi customers, although in practice​ I'm sure they were not very good at being to have it both ways and certainly made mistakes. Maurice Marks was the lead techie @ DEC Semi in those days, and a colleague I used to see fairly often then. I know Maurice would have screamed pretty loud if he saw the system side of DEC mucking up his business and I think G2-Bob would have swatted folks if they had - he wanted revenue anyway he could get it. As I think you know my last DEC projects was the 1K Alpha were we spliced an EV6 into a $799 AMD based system. The DEC guys were the ones that hated it (Compaq actually liked it because Dell could not do it). Anyway, Maurice and I were shaking our heads on that one. Clem -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: