Gentoo Archives: gentoo-releng

From: Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o>
To: gentoo-releng@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-releng] 2006.0 planning
Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2005 21:01:38
Message-Id: 1133902776.17235.21.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-releng] 2006.0 planning by "Bryan Østergaard"
1 On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 21:48 +0100, Bryan Østergaard wrote:
2 > On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 03:01:03PM -0500, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
3 > >
4 > > Just curious, but what video buses does Alpha use besides PCI? I'm
5 > > wondering if hwsetup detects some of the different ones (like it detects
6 > > SBUS on SPARC) or not.
7 > >
8 > PCI or AGP in a few models. Some (very) old alpha based systems uses
9 > Turbochannel but that's not supported by Linux afaik and I'm just going
10 > to poke fun at people with Turbochannel systems :) So no fancy stuff
11 > regarding hwsetup.
12
13 Cool. I might have to poke around some. It might be *very* easy for
14 you to get a working Installer CD. I've been working on my X detection
15 stuff to make it work on non-x86 systems (dropped ddcxinfo-knoppix, for
16 one).
17
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19 Chris Gianelloni
20 Release Engineering - Strategic Lead
21 x86 Architecture Team
22 Games - Developer
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