RE: Linux_is_Great!

["B. James Phillippe" <bryan terran org>]

On Tue, 15 Dec 1998, Joakim Roubert wrote:

> On Tue, 15 Dec 1998, dr john halewood wrote:
> 
> > I know you can override things like this from SRM, if you have it.
> 
> I have, but I use ARC. Hmm.. Interresting.
> But why should SRM send something like "Linux_is_Great!" if you don't
> specify anything else...?
> 
> I just think it must be linux-software related.

I don't think SRM has anything to do with it; I believe the message you see
is coming from MILO, not ARC or SRM.  I've only ever seen the message on
ARC/MILO boxes.  Here is my /proc/cpuinfo on my personal system, which is
SRM and aboot based.

cpu			: Alpha
cpu model		: EV45
cpu variation		: 7
cpu revision		: 0
cpu serial number	: 
system type		: Avanti
system variation	: 0
system revision		: 0
system serial number	: 
cycle frequency [Hz]	: 233100233 
timer frequency [Hz]	: 1024.00
page size [bytes]	: 8192
phys. address bits	: 34
max. addr. space #	: 63
BogoMIPS		: 230.16
kernel unaligned acc	: 0 (pc=0,va=0)
user unaligned acc	: 3 (pc=2000022a4c4,va=11fffd0a4)
platform string		: AlphaStation 200 4/233

-bp
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