Re: Old Alpha machines - are they suitable?

["Oliver Elphick" <olly@lfix.co.uk>]

Andrew J Patterson wrote:
  >> > > I gather they are 2xx MHz and use the Turbo Channel Bus - I gather the
      > last
  >> > > bit may be the decider - does LINUX support it?
  >
  >You are right.. linux has no turbo channel support (well not when I looked 6
      > mnths
  >ago and I think it would take a fair bit of hacking for it ever to be suppor
      >ted..)
  >
  >> > Can you tell me if these machines can be used with Linux?
  >
  >So I guess the answer is no but luckily NetBSD does work on a DEC 3000/400
  >and so I've had to settle for that.. (www.netbsd.org for the details)


There seems to be Turbo Channel support in kernel 2.3.35 (linux/drivers/tc/).
Is that what is needed to support these machines?

In netbsd archives, there are posts that indicate there is no support for
X with Turbo Channel bus. Would the same be true of Linux (if the tc drivers
are useful for Alpha)?

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