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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!cnn.nas.nasa.gov!lestat.nas.nasa.gov!thorpej 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 Lines: 18 Message-ID: <49tkrl$2ch@cnn.nas.nasa.gov> References: <491ie8$4tg@taiwan.informatik.uni-rostock.de> <MICHAELV.95Nov23103449@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> <slrn4bdmff.43l.coleman@redwood.skiles.gatech.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lestat.nas.nasa.gov 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... -- Jason R. Thorpe thorpej@nas.nasa.gov NASA Ames Research Center Home: 408.866.1912 NAS: M/S 258-6 Work: 415.604.0935 Moffett Field, CA 94035 Pager: 415.428.6939