From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailserv2.iuinc.com (IDENT:qmailr@mailserv2.iuinc.com [206.245.164.55]) by puffin.external.hp.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id JAA14187 for ; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 09:57:38 -0700 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk (HELO www.linux.org.uk) (195.92.249.252) by mailserv2.iuinc.com with SMTP; 24 Jan 2001 17:01:30 -0000 Received: from willy by www.linux.org.uk with local (Exim 3.13 #1) id 14LTIE-0004br-00; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:01:10 +0000 Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:01:10 +0000 From: Matthew Wilcox To: Christoph Plattner Cc: Marek GROSSMAN , parisc-linux@thepuffingroup.com, christoph.plattner@dot.at Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] Boot from tape Message-ID: <20010124170110.B4836@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> References: <3A6EE1A6.D21F249F@nspuh.cz> <3A6F02F2.3C4A137C@alcatel.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <3A6F02F2.3C4A137C@alcatel.at>; from christoph.plattner@alcatel.at on Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 05:29:38PM +0100 Sender: List-ID: On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 05:29:38PM +0100, Christoph Plattner wrote: > How can you run Linux ? > I thought, HP E55 (9000/856) is not full supported, as > the SCSI driver and the serial multiplexer (8-port serial, > where my console is configured to port 0) is not supported > (no driver !). > Or is there any, and I don't know it ?? If someone wants to put some effort into it... (hint: i don't) the PDC spec (available from www.parisc-linux.org/documentation.html) includes calls to perform block io. there's no practical reason someone couldn't write drivers/block/pdc.c which performed IO through this mechanism. performance would suck, but at least it would work. -- Revolutions do not require corporate support.