From: willy@thepuffingroup.com
To: Bas Valkema <b_valkema@hotmail.com>
Cc: parisc-linux@thepuffingroup.com
Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] Couple of questions
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 13:26:01 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20000326132601.A29108@thepuffingroup.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20000326122048.75837.qmail@hotmail.com>; from Bas Valkema on Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 02:17:01PM +0200
On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 02:17:01PM +0200, Bas Valkema wrote:
> 1 - how does a 715/50 boot over a network? Probably not bootp...
rbootd. There's an RPM and a tgz on puffin.external.hp.com in
/pub/parisc/binaries/
> 2 - what is the maximum size of memory(module) (8 slots) supported in the 715/50? And what does Linux support?
not sure. You need to add them in pairs. It's documented in the Hardware
Compatibility List that's available from the documentation page.
> 3 - What does the TOC button do????
Transfer Of Control. It resets the machine.
> 4 - Linux reports SCSI-Clock of 50MHz, this is probably wrong, right?
According to the documentation we have, that is correct.
> 5 - I am willing to write a fb-driver, but can't find any specs of the graphics adapter..
we're working on getting those specs released. steve shack is already
working on it though.
> 6 - Is someone (thinking of) porting ld.so??
yes, it's part of glibc.
> 7 - Is it possible to use an ext2fs partition as root?
The SCSI driver isn't working yet. If you want to add support for the
NCR53c700 which is in the 715/50, then you will be very popular :-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-03-26 18:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-03-26 12:17 [parisc-linux] Couple of questions Bas Valkema
2000-03-26 18:02 ` Philipp Rumpf
2000-03-26 18:26 ` willy [this message]
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2000-03-27 14:43 davisg
2000-03-27 18:02 ` Philipp Rumpf
2000-03-28 9:20 ` Corne Beerse
2000-03-28 16:52 davisg
2000-03-29 5:44 ` Philippe Benard
2000-03-29 9:02 ` Corne Beerse
2000-03-29 18:52 ` willy
2000-03-29 19:10 ` Peter A. Peterson II
2000-03-29 21:58 ` willy
2000-03-28 17:16 davisg
2000-03-29 17:11 davisg
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