Re: NetBSD/hp700 on B/C-class machines?

Chuck Silvers <[email protected]> Tue, 10 May 2005 07:30:18 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.hp700
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 02:29:34AM +0200, Tobias Nygren wrote:
> Hi hppa hackers,
> 
> I was excited to see the recent development on the hp700 port, and it
> triggered a few questions. 
> The Astro/Elroy chipset docs are available, is anyone looking into those?

I doubt it, since we don't support the CPUs in the boxes with those chipsets.


> Are there other things beside the Astro/Elroy support that need to be done
> in order to get NetBSD running in 32-bit mode on B/C-class boxes?

we also need support for the PA-8xxx CPUs.  right now we only have code for
the 7xxx ones (and 7200 doesn't even work yet).

-Chuck