Re: HP 9000/817S
Jochen Kunz <[email protected]> Mon, 18 Oct 2004 19:06:34 +0200
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.netbsd.ports.hp300 |
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On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 17:43:23 +0800 Rui-Xiang Guo <[email protected]> wrote: > There is a old HP 9000/817S server in our lab and I intend to make it > boot NetBSD. ;) > But I have ever read the web page on hp300 port, it meantion about > that 9000 series 800 will never be supported. Is this still true? > I really would like to make it alive. :) The 817 is a PA-RISC machine. If we get support for it, then via port-hp700. (hp300 is m68k, hp700 is PA-RISC) At the moment the 817 is not supported due to its PA7000 CPU and the HP-PB bus. Support for this may happen at some point in the (far) future. -- tschüß, Jochen Homepage: http://www.unixag-kl.fh-kl.de/~jkunz/