Hello from Gregg C Levine Funny you should be bringing that up now. HP is holding a road show on the state of the art as applied to the Alpha, and relatives, here in NYC, tomorrow Wednesday the 15.
They have already told me, that the EV7z processors will stay active at least until something runs out. Figure about the next ten years. The original blue Alphas, are supported, I mean you can call them and ask for support for parts, and manuals, but that's it. ------------------- Gregg C Levine hansolofalcon@worldnet.att.net ------------------------------------------------------------ "The Force will be with you...Always." Obi-Wan Kenobi "Use the Force, Luke." Obi-Wan Kenobi
-----Original Message----- From: linuxbios-admin@clustermatic.org [mailto:linuxbios- admin@clustermatic.org] On Behalf Of Stefan Reinauer Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 3:14 AM To: Li-Ta Lo Cc: Richard Smith; rminnich@lanl.gov; Trellix78@aol.com; LinuxBIOS; eich@suse.de Subject: Re: epia m vga + memcpy update
- Li-Ta Lo ollie@lanl.gov [040913 21:35]:
Another one is Milo, the Alpha Linux Bootloader..
Is there anyone still working on that ? I thought Alpha is dead
now.
Ollie
Not really.. the last couple of years only me and Jay Estabrook were working on Milo anyways. It is a big nasty bunch of code that noone really wants to touch. I still have the plans to use the last few code snippets that are
usable
to get OpenBIOS as a simple bootloader for AlphaBIOS/ARCS based machines. Like, the PAL code and some early init should still be
usable,
all kernel linkage must be removed. No idea whether I will actually get to do this before everybody
stopped
using these machines though ;) My own Alpha machine is SRM based, so I have no immediate pressure
or
testing possibilities anyways.
Stefan
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