[parisc-linux] ttyS00 reported twice

[parisc-linux] ttyS00 reported twice

[Richard Hirst]

There was some discussion on irc yesterday about bootup messages reporting
something like:

Found serial #0 at 0xf0823000, IRQ 538
ttyS00 at iomem 0xf0823800 (irq = 538) is a 16550A
Found serial #1 at 0xf0822000, IRQ 537
ttyS00 at iomem 0xf0822800 (irq = 537) is a 16550A

i.e. both ports reported as ttyS00.  This seems to be a consequence of us
calling register_serial() before rs_init() is called.  In addition there
is a chunk of initialisation in rs_init() that is #ifndef CONFIG_GSC;
that would need to be enabled so that rs_table[].line is initialised,
before we would report ttyS01.

The solution might be to make register_serial() aware of whether rs_init()
has yet been called.  If it hasn't, register_serial() just queues the
struct_serial that was passed in and returns success.  At the end of
rs_init() we call register_serial() again for each item in the queue.
This is similar to what happens with the net devices.

Richard

Re: [parisc-linux] ttyS00 reported twice

[Grant Grundler]

Richard Hirst wrote:
...
> The solution might be to make register_serial() aware of whether rs_init()
> has yet been called.  If it hasn't, register_serial() just queues the
> struct_serial that was passed in and returns success.  At the end of
> rs_init() we call register_serial() again for each item in the queue.
> This is similar to what happens with the net devices.

Richard,
For lack of visible discussion, I'd say just do it.

This sounds like a reasonable approach. Error recovery is the only
potential pitfall.

thanks,
grant

Re: [parisc-linux] ttyS00 reported twice

[Richard Hirst]

On Thu, Jun 01, 2000 at 11:04:08PM -0700, Grant Grundler wrote:
> Richard Hirst wrote:
> ...
> > The solution might be to make register_serial() aware of whether rs_init()
> > has yet been called.  If it hasn't, register_serial() just queues the
> > struct_serial that was passed in and returns success.  At the end of
> > rs_init() we call register_serial() again for each item in the queue.
> > This is similar to what happens with the net devices.
> 
> Richard,
> For lack of visible discussion, I'd say just do it.

I have taken a different approach, and made rs_init() call probe_serial_gsc()
after calling probe_serial_pci().  We no longer attempt to register serial
drivers from busdevices_init().  I also removed a few gsc specific hacks
from serial.c, as they don't appear to be necessary any more.

Richard

[parisc-linux] Bootable CD image

[Paulius Pazera]

Hi guys,


Our company bought HP9000/800/H30 from auction. Hardware is ok, it boots
HP-UX 9 fine, but there is not much to do without root password and CDs. The
only chance I can see to make it functional is to install Linux.
Unfortunately I could not find anything to start with. Could somebody tell
me where from I can download bootable CD image and basic development
utilities (gcc, glibc, etc) for pa-risc linux. Thanks a lot.


Paulius

Re: [parisc-linux] Bootable CD image

[Matt Taggart]

"Paulius Pazera" writes...

> Our company bought HP9000/800/H30 from auction. Hardware is ok, it boots
> HP-UX 9 fine, but there is not much to do without root password and CDs. The

You *could* boot it single user and change the root password.

> only chance I can see to make it functional is to install Linux.
> Unfortunately I could not find anything to start with. Could somebody tell
> me where from I can download bootable CD image and basic development
> utilities (gcc, glibc, etc) for pa-risc linux. Thanks a lot.

The port is still in progress, so there are no "bootable CD image"s yet. Right 
now the kernel builds and boots and there are drivers for some older devices. 
There is also a cross-toolchain(static) and some static userspace apps. There 
is a hardware database at,

http://216.208.98.4/

with entries for H20 and H50. Perhaps you could submit an entry for H30?

If you want to try the kernel on your H30 you can follow the recipe at,

http://www.thepuffingroup.com/parisc/recipe.html

-- 
Matt Taggart
taggart@fc.hp.com

Re: [parisc-linux] Bootable CD image

[Phil Schwan]

On Jun 09, Matt Taggart wrote:
> There is also a cross-toolchain(static) and some static userspace apps. There 
> is a hardware database at,
> 
> http://216.208.98.4/

Please don't reference 216.208.98.4, as the hardware database will be
moving shortly, and the address will be deprecated.  Instead, please
use http://www.thepuffingroup.com/parisc/hw.html when referring to the
hardware database.

Thanks--

-Phil

Re: [parisc-linux] Bootable CD image

[T. Martin]

Paulis, 
 I had the same prob, 
hardboot the thing it will ask you to fsk the drives (y/n) say no
it might drop you into root console then just passwd root and your HP-Unix
9.xx should accessable after fscking the drives. 
BUT it is not y2k compliant, it's a minor error on my 715's. 


catfish: icq #20116127


On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Paulius Pazera wrote:

> Hi guys,
> 
> 
> Our company bought HP9000/800/H30 from auction. Hardware is ok, it boots
> HP-UX 9 fine, but there is not much to do without root password and CDs. The
> only chance I can see to make it functional is to install Linux.
> Unfortunately I could not find anything to start with. Could somebody tell
> me where from I can download bootable CD image and basic development
> utilities (gcc, glibc, etc) for pa-risc linux. Thanks a lot.
> 
> 
> Paulius
> 
> 
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