RE: [parisc-linux] hardware features of 712-60 ?

["\"Beerse, Corné\"" <c.beerse@torex-hiscom.nl>]

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin-Éric Racine [mailto:q-funk@pp.fishpool.fi]
> On Fri, 11 Oct 2002, "Beerse, Corné" wrote:
> 
> > > At this point, I apt-got kernel-source-2.4.19-hppa and 
> > > unpacked it, and already
> > > selected the 7100LC/7300LC CPU option.  What else?  Has 
> > > anybody compiled a FAQ
> > > on parisc-linux that provides .config files optimized for 
> > > each PA-RISC hardware
> > > or, alternately, a checklist of hardware one finds in product 
> > > xxx, referenced by
> > > Linux kernel feature or module name? 
> > 
> > Have you checked the hardware database on the website?
> > (http://www.parisc-linux.org/) That gives an overview on 
> what whas in the
> > origional box.
> 
> http://hwdb.parisc-linux.org/view.php3?type=machine&name=712%2F60
> 
> That page could have been written in Chinese, it would have 
> been equally clear.  
> 
> I guess I'm just used to PC hardware, where kernel compiling 
> simply means "if
> you have graphics card XXX select the driver with the same 
> name". I've yet to

Which most times results in a lot of variants for the same card (since
manufacturers update hardware without updating the type info) and lots of
names for stuf using the same chipset. I think it is just what you are used
ot. both have their pro-s and con-s. 

> find that simplicity in HP hardware, probably because 
> everything is done via
> custom chips that combine several functions, and it is not 
> clear to me which
> chip does what, as every line in that page starts with Gecko.

I think this Gecko is the name of the development of the machine. I think
(never looked) the terms can be found in the source too (if required). Its
just a little more pronouncable than 9000/712/60... You're working on
workstations. If you look at servers (9000/800 range) then it is an even
stranger view at first sight.




CBee

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