>
> Because the source for MILO is generaly available and it is based on the
> linux kernel, new drivers can be added reasonably easly. For the same
> reason bugs can be fixed when they crop up.
The source is available yes, and several people continue to work on
it. However, the x86 emulator included with it is binary only and guessing
from its age, will do no better than older SRMs with newer video cards
etc....I suppose if somebody wanted to they may be able to use the x86
emulator that the XFree86 guys use, but I'd imagine this to be a major
undertaking.
> MILO has some problems with setting up some motherboards. The usual
> answer I get to questions about MILO are "well just use SRM it is there
> and works". I think this discussion is evidence that althought SRM is
> there it does not allways work.
>
> Would it not be worth the while of the Alpha community to try and find a
> single boot loader and get it working with all the various motherboards.
> Somthing that the community as a whole can support. Right now there are
> at least 4 different loaders with various levels of support.
Also there's no EV6 support in MILO, so that would have to be added, and I
think MILOs only value in this case is when it could be flashed into the
ROM, replacing AlphaBIOS/SRM. If you're just starting it from ARC then I
really don't see any advantage.
--rdp
> My $0.03(CDN)
>
>
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