Jay.Estabrook@digital.com
Wed, 30 Dec 1998 12:55:49 -0500
>>> Michal Jaegermann said:
> Actually Richard Henderson and
> Jay Estabrook took a stab into a "generic" Alpha kernel which would
> start on anything. They had some degree of success in this but
> I guess that there are more pressing things to do now and this
> was put on a back burner.
Uh, don't look now, but the 2.1.xx kernels have had the "Generic" system
type available for a while, so it'll be in 2.2.
And not only does it run on any machine, but it doesn't care whether its
booted from SRM or MILO... :-)
It's typically all that I build these days, so it tends to get tested mostly
on the latest boxes (DP264, RAWHIDE, RX164); anyone with older or less common
boxes is encouraged to try it out, and let me know if you have any problems,
especially for getting bugfixes into 2.2...
--Jay++
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