Re: 3.4-beta on B132L and E55 / PCI support

Jochen Kunz [[email protected]] wrote:
> I am new to this list and OpenBSD. I instaled the 3.4-beta snapshot on
> my 715/100XC and it seams to run fine. The installation was a bit
> complicated. There was no lif34.fs as desribed in the installation

there is one in the snapshots/hppa directory on the ftp-servers.

> BTW: Why did the kernel use the old Sun rarp/bootparamd method? Even the
> boot ROM in the 715/100XC supported dhcp/bootp. 

there's supposedly no intelligent way to pass these options from the
pdc (the boot rom) stage 1 loader to later stages, i.e. the kernel.

> AFAIK WAX is the EISA bridge and the PCI bridge is the Dino chip. 
> Is anyone working on an EISA and more interresting on a PCI attachment?

there is work going on wrt to dino@ and attached devices, esp. on
a180 and b-class machines.

mickey (the port maintainer) probably can say more about this.

> I tried to boot the 3.4-beta snapshot on an E55 too. 

the e-class servers are technically in some aspects just like 712,
although their i/o-subsystems partially was implemented w/ hp-pb
devices for which there exists no public documentation, judging from
hp-ppl on the parisc-linux mailing-list.

so, concluding, i think supporting a hppa server which is not able to
access local-disks is pretty pointless.


        - paul

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