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

Jochen Kunz [[email protected]] wrote:
> (already mounted in the machine) and a DEFEA FDDI card (still in the 
> shelf). 

eisa does not work for now, i don't know of plans.
fea0 obviously is not know to work on hppa since nobody had a way of
testing it.

pci fpa0 does not work on hppa, since it'd need bus_dma(9) conversion
and maybe endianess fixes.
i know s/o who wanted to to this. err..

> BTW: I have a 715/33, a 712/60, a 720 and a 755/99 too. 

only the 712/60 you can run from the disk with openbsd.

> >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.
> fsck /dev/hp
> So there is really no hope for any hp-pb based machine?

not much, as said, freeing the hp/pb docs is no high-priority for the
ppl at hp and ppl elsewhere are rather requesting docs for more
common/faster machines from them.

> Sounds like the truoble with GIO32 / GIO64 / XIO in SGI machines... 
> >so, concluding, i think supporting a hppa server which is not able to
> >access local-disks is pretty pointless.
> Diskless NFS root? ;-)

as said, this'd be really w/o sense, running a big server from the
nfs, although the linux ppl managed to get to this point (on an e55).


        - paul

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