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From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr)
Subject: Re: PALcode
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References: <id.H4M21.B7J@nmti.com> <CDI2pr.2Du@dragon.dsh.org> <GLASS.93Sep17192920@sun-lamp.postgres.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1993 22:12:36 GMT
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In article <GLASS.93Sep17192920@sun-lamp.postgres.Berkeley.EDU> glass@postgres.Berkeley.EDU (Adam Glass) writes:
>
>      It has been a bit since I have looked at my Alpha Architecture
>   Reference Manual, but I believe there should be enough information
>   between it and the chip-specific manual to write a new set of PALcode
>   routines. I saw a PostScript document on the 21064 when I was on
>   axposf.pa.dec.com, and from what I managed to get from it, I think it
>   would be enough. The new 20166 and 20168 chips should be quite similar,
>   if not the same, as far as PALcode is concerned. Other incarnations of
>   the Alpha architecture may be quite different, though. If I had NetBSD
>   for the AlphaPC, I would probably buy one tomorrow.
>
>				      Gary D. Duzan
>				      Network Administrator
>				      Delaware State Hospital
>
>If we had a few alpha boxes, and some people with time, we would be
>doing an Alpha port right now.  From our point of view, the Alpha is
>in the same class as the sparc in terms of porting difficulty, though
>DEC seems to do a better (and more accessible) job of documenting
>their boxes than Sun does.
>
>later,
>Adam Glass
>NetBSD project
>
>--
>Adam Glass                        |E-mail home: glass@sun-lamp.cs.berkeley.edu
>				  |Physical   : Seattle
>		     "reality is for dead birds"

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