Hello, On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 11:55:59AM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: > > Can anyone give a summary of what it would take to support AlphaBIOS? > > Someone needs to come up with maintainable MILO images (which preferably > means something that we can build from source, since MILO is based on a > Linux kernel) and provide a way to integrate them into the debian-cd > build process. What I would suggest is: 1. Read the archives of both axp-alpha list and debian-alpha list (the link on www.debian.org/ports/alpha is outdated, use http://www.lib.uaa.alaska.edu/axp-list/ for researching the alpha list) and compile a list of "known to work" milos for the various milo-only machines. Also issues regarding building milos have been discussed several times. 2. Check out the MILO-FAQ on www.alphalinux.org. I just updated it and a newer version should appear there soon (but my updates mainly concerned links and formatting so don't ask me any milo specific details). You should get an idea of how milo was created and about the x86-emulation part. 3. Especially look at Stepan Rainauers and the Gentoo work which are the latest changes to the sources; the milos from Stepan should boot most (but, as I remember, not all) non-SRM-alphas. 4. If you figures out which milo for which alpha and which milo can be actually build from source with current tools (or how to work around limitations of current tools) then I suggest creating a sample package (or at least a Makefile which creates the milos and takes care of installing them properly) and posting your finding together with a reference to this sample package on this list. I guess people on this list (or maybe debian-boot) can help you from this point on. If you need any link or more information from the SRM side, feel free to contact me. Greetings Helge -- Helge Kreutzmann, Dipl.-Phys. Helge.Kreutzmann@itp.uni-hannover.de gpg signed mail preferred gpg-key: finger kreutzm@rigel.itp.uni-hannover.de 64bit GNU powered http://www.itp.uni-hannover.de/~kreutzm Help keep free software "libre": http://www.freepatents.org/
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