3 Mar
2003
3 Mar
'03
4:44 a.m.
On Sun, 2 Mar 2003, Antonio Carlini wrote:
I'll see if I can find it. I have the VAX7000 manual, but I don't have
the AS8x00 manual.
Is there any
difference between Laserbus and Turbolaser other than
clock rate? The AS8200/8400 are supported under NetBSD.
Would it be possible to leveredge any of that work for 7000 support?
Some time ago the AS8x00 manuals were up on the COMPAQ website, but
right now I cannot find them. (Alpha tech manuals always seemed much
more available than the corresponding VAX and PDP manuals). I don't think I have anythong that describes TLSB
in any detail, but if
all that changed was the clock frequency, I wouldn't have expected the
name to change.
Hmm.
OTOH, if you have a VAX or DEC 7000, see what happens
if you assume (LSB
== TLSB) ... (I didn't realise that NetBSD knew how to run on the bigger
Alpha systems, but I've not really kept track as I don't have one!)
Well, I don't have TLSB hardware to experiment with, and I only have the
VAX version, and it only runs VMS, so I don't really know how this
experiment would go. Since I would doubt that any TLSB peripherals would
have VAX drivers, how would I go about testing compatibility? PROM
hardware tests?
Peace... Sridhar