Some have SRM console firmware available in Machines with the ARC or AlphaBIOS console firmware were Type, there is a good chance that this will change at some point in If FreeBSD does not currently support your machine Sure that SRM console firmware is available for the particular Sure it has the SRM console firmware installed. Hardware is almost guaranteed to fail miserably.įor a machine even to be considered for FreeBSD use please make This means that a kernel needs to know the intimateĭetails of a particular machine before it can run on it. There are considerableĭifferences between the various core logic chip sets and mainboardĭesigns. Obviously you will need an Alpha machine that FreeBSD knowsĪbout.
(``Clipper'') 2.4 Supported Hardware Overview 2.5 Acknowledgments 3 Supported Devices 3.1 Disk Controllers 3.2 Ethernet Interfaces 3.3 FDDI Interfaces 3.4 ATM Interfaces 3.5 Wireless Network Interfaces 3.6 Miscellaneous Networks 3.7 ISDN Interfaces 3.8 Serial Interfaces 3.9 Audio Devices 3.10 Camera and Video Captureĭevices 3.11 USB Devices 3.12 IEEE 1394 (Firewire) Devices 3.13 Bluetooth Devices 3.14 Cryptographic Accelerators 3.15 Miscellaneous (``TurboLaser'') 2.3.16 Alpha Processor Inc. Motherboards 2.1 Overview 2.2 In general, what do you need to runįreeBSD on an Alpha? 2.3 System-specific information 2.3.1 AXPpci33 (``NoName'') 2.3.2 Universal Desktop Box (UDB or Table of Contents 1 Introduction 2 Supported processors and