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From: thorpej@lestat.nas.nasa.gov (Jason R. Thorpe)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: DEC Alpha port of NetBSD
Date: 4 Dec 1995 02:02:29 GMT
Organization: Numerical Aerodynamic Simulation Project - NASA Ames
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In article <slrn4bdmff.43l.coleman@redwood.skiles.gatech.edu>,
Richard Coleman <coleman@math.gatech.edu> wrote:

>It the Alpha port a part of the main development sources, or is it
>a port separate from the main development baseline?

A little of both.  From time to time, alpha sources in the tree are sync'd
with the tree at CMU.  Some MI code (notably ISA and NFS, though NFS is
getting there) needs to be fixed up.  NFS issues are basically 64-bit
cleanliness.  ISA is another story; the ISA code interface to the bus needs
to get cleaned up, because ISA/PCI/EISA Alphas are a much different world
than PCs...

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