Re: Linux port - DEC3000
On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, David Graham wrote:
> I have a DEC 3000 (300 XL I think) alpha workstation I picked up from an
> obsolete equipment sale at my school, and as yet I have been unable to
> find any sort of port to it for anything but NetBSD. NetBSD has no display
> and can not read the keyboard, and thus can only be used as a file server
> on the machines.
>
> I did come across a linux port some time back in the works at
> http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/~armhold/linux/alpha-3000.html
> but it hasn't had any updates since August of last year, and at last word
> was hanging on a problem with time_init. (Something to do with the DEC3000
> having a different clock chip from newer alphas, according to a friend.)
The problem is that the DEC3000 series were based on DEC's own
TurboChannel bus, instead of EISA or PCI.
> Does anyone know if there is any other linux port that I am not aware of
> for this machine? I have no access to any other alphas and have poor (but
> growing) programming skills so any help would be very much appreciated.
There is one guy working on it:
http://www.phys.ufl.edu/~prescott/linux/alpha/dec3000-port.html
--rdp
> Thank you.
>
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> David Graham
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Rich Payne
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