[rescue] another U10 Q

[Marc Zyngier]

>>>>> "Joshua" == Joshua D Boyd <Joshua> writes:

Joshua> The AS500 is an alpha, right?  Was the machine actually
Joshua> booting off of it?  I didn't know that Alphas used OF.  Or
Joshua> maybe it just understood the chipset and ignored the firmware.

The Alpha doesn't care about the integrated firmware. The SRM just
noticed a 53c875, and used it as such (SRM has support for this
chip). And indeed, it boots from this card.

Joshua> As to the swapping scsi cards between mac and U5, and the
Joshua> various OFs.  That kind of defeats the purpose of OF, doesn't
Joshua> it?

Indeed.

It seems that latest implementations (IEEE-1275 compliant) should at
least behave a little better. That is, if manufacturers can start
thinking instead of producing braindead firmware...

        M.
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