[parisc-linux] Status Query .

[parisc-linux] Status Query .

[Lars Segerlund]

 I have a 725/50 ( or something like that ) and I am really interested in doing
 some work on the hppa, perhaps not the kernel, but some driver would be ok.

 However I do not have HP-UX, so I want to setup the HP, as a linux workstation
 as a firts step, it seems that there is a booting kernel, but I haven't seen
 anyone boot a shell och mount a filesystem, am I of the correct oppinion to
 assume that the kernel have not yet reached this point ??

 / best regards, lars segerlund.

Re: [parisc-linux] Status Query .

[Hans-Juergen Bergmann]

Lars Segerlund wrote:

>  I have a 725/50 ( or something like that ) and I am really interested in doing
>  some work on the hppa, perhaps not the kernel, but some driver would be ok.
>
>  However I do not have HP-UX, so I want to setup the HP, as a linux workstation
>  as a firts step, it seems that there is a booting kernel, but I haven't seen
>  anyone boot a shell och mount a filesystem, am I of the correct oppinion to
>  assume that the kernel have not yet reached this point ??

I think so, you still need HPUX or a cross development system to make something
usefull.

>
>
>  / best regards, lars segerlund.
>
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I have the same machine with HPUX installed. I have not testet the kernel on it
yet, but I think I will wait a little longer
until I join in. So how is the status of the kernel for this machine type ?
Is it worth starting work on this hardware yet ?

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[parisc-linux] Out of the loop....

[Steve Ball]

Wheeee so its been a while since i've done any work on these HP machines
here.. I tried unsucessfully to boot a kernel back in July, and today I
decided to try it again.  Put rbootd on my linux box, and booted the 09-30
image I got from puffin on my system.

Its an HP apollo Series 700, which boils down to a model 730 (King
Cobra) 66mhz machine with 64 megs of mem.

The bootloader seems to boot ok, it hangs at transferring control to the
kernel, entry point 0x00010000 (earlier versions of the kernel made it all
the way to the rotating cursor) and I get a hex A7 on the LED
indicators...

Anyway, hoping maybe this will help someone!  I'm more than happy to try
anything out on these machines as they are doing absolutly nothing right
now but sitting here.

Have fun! 

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Re: [parisc-linux] Status Query .

[Tomasz Korycki]

At 09:31 99-10-05 +0200, you wrote:
>
> I have a 725/50 ( or something like that ) and I am really interested in doing
> some work on the hppa, perhaps not the kernel, but some driver would be ok.
>
> However I do not have HP-UX, so I want to setup the HP, as a linux workstation
> as a firts step, it seems that there is a booting kernel, but I haven't seen
> anyone boot a shell och mount a filesystem, am I of the correct oppinion to
> assume that the kernel have not yet reached this point ??
>

You are correct. What I'd suggest, is to go to:
http://www.software.hp.com/Y2K-upgrades/upgrade_request.html
and get Yourself 10.20 for the cost of shiping. Grab it while it lasts. Then
find someone with a Linux box and beg/steal/borrow it. Around here You can
get a Linuxable 486 for a U$80, Pentium (low) for U$180-200. So You may even
buy one... I know a code/compile/debug cycle can use a fast machine, but
with a bit of discipline one can make do with a slow, too...

> / best regards, lars segerlund.
>