Linux on RM600

Linux on RM600

[Jan-Benedict Glaw]

Hi!

The howto states that there's currently no linux running on the RM600.
Is this information up-to-date? ...or has already some work be done? I
could get one of those boxes, but I don't want to only use it as a
letter weight...

MfG, JBG

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Re: Linux on RM600

[Florian Lohoff]

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On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 09:25:21PM +0100, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> The howto states that there's currently no linux running on the RM600.
> Is this information up-to-date? ...or has already some work be done? I
> could get one of those boxes, but I don't want to only use it as a
> letter weight...

*Cough* You could also kill an Elephant with certain extension steps.

Flo
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Re: Linux on RM600

[Jan-Benedict Glaw]

On Fri, 2001-11-09 13:12:11 -0800, Florian Lohoff <flo@rfc822.org>
wrote in message <20011109131211.D8243@paradigm.rfc822.org>:
> On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 09:25:21PM +0100, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
> > The howto states that there's currently no linux running on the RM600.
> > Is this information up-to-date? ...or has already some work be done? I
> 
> *Cough* You could also kill an Elephant with certain extension steps.

I know:-) But what about the RM600. I've found some announcement
for some SAP monitoring system running on "RM600/LINUX" (can be
found at http://www.save.de/bereiche/ak_s/sap/sap1000/agenda.html).

I found arbitrary texts talking about RM600 and Reliant Unix, but
that's not what I want. (Or do I want to have the 2nd exotic O/S
running?)

MfG, JBG

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Re: Linux on RM600

[Florian Lohoff]

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On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 11:35:56PM +0100, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:

> I know:-) But what about the RM600. I've found some announcement
> for some SAP monitoring system running on "RM600/LINUX" (can be
> found at http://www.save.de/bereiche/ak_s/sap/sap1000/agenda.html).

I dont think they mean THE RM600 or they mean RM600/Reliant 
and/or Linux/i386

> I found arbitrary texts talking about RM600 and Reliant Unix, but
> that's not what I want. (Or do I want to have the 2nd exotic O/S
> running?)

The RM600 is big endian only AFAIK and was running Sinix/Reliant
only. The RM200 port which existed and which might be completely 
outdated and non-functional now is for little endian which
the RM200 were delivered with for running Windows-NT.

Thus - Its a completely new port ...

Flo
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Re: Linux on RM600

[Jan-Benedict Glaw]

On Fri, 2001-11-09 14:54:43 -0800, Florian Lohoff <flo@rfc822.org>
wrote in message <20011109145443.J8243@paradigm.rfc822.org>:
> On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 11:35:56PM +0100, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
> 
> > I found arbitrary texts talking about RM600 and Reliant Unix, but
> > that's not what I want. (Or do I want to have the 2nd exotic O/S
> > running?)
> 
> The RM600 is big endian only AFAIK and was running Sinix/Reliant
> only. The RM200 port which existed and which might be completely 
> outdated and non-functional now is for little endian which
> the RM200 were delivered with for running Windows-NT.
> 
> Thus - Its a completely new port ...

Shit. Does anybody know something about Siemen's / SNI's / Wincor's
documentation policy? Karsten? Any hope to get the box running with
linux?

MfG, JBG

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Re: Linux on RM600

[Florian Lohoff]

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On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 12:02:47AM +0100, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
> 
> Shit. Does anybody know something about Siemen's / SNI's / Wincor's
> documentation policy? Karsten? Any hope to get the box running with
> linux?
> 

There is no documentation i know of - But we should be able to reactivate
a couple of people within SNI/Paderborn (Probably they are even reading
on here) which can at least give good answers to intelligent questions.

Flo
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Re: Linux on RM600

[Karsten Merker]

On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 12:02:47AM +0100, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:

[RM600]
> Shit. Does anybody know something about Siemen's / SNI's / Wincor's
> documentation policy? Karsten? Any hope to get the box running with
> linux?

AFAIK: no chance.

Greetings,
Karsten
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Re: Linux on RM600

[Ralf Baechle]

On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 02:54:43PM -0800, Florian Lohoff wrote:

> The RM600 is big endian only AFAIK and was running Sinix/Reliant
> only. The RM200 port which existed and which might be completely 
> outdated and non-functional now is for little endian which
> the RM200 were delivered with for running Windows-NT.
> 
> Thus - Its a completely new port ...

Oh, I need my RM200C as a router so I'm just working on resurrecting
that port :)

  Ralf

Re: Linux on RM600

[Florian Lohoff]

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On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 10:20:23AM +0200, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 02:54:43PM -0800, Florian Lohoff wrote:
> 
> > The RM600 is big endian only AFAIK and was running Sinix/Reliant
> > only. The RM200 port which existed and which might be completely 
> > outdated and non-functional now is for little endian which
> > the RM200 were delivered with for running Windows-NT.
> > 
> > Thus - Its a completely new port ...
> 
> Oh, I need my RM200C as a router so I'm just working on resurrecting
> that port :)

Little or Big endian ? I still have an RM200 big endian :)

FLo
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Re: Linux on RM600

[Ralf Baechle]

On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 01:23:00PM +0200, Florian Lohoff wrote:

> > Oh, I need my RM200C as a router so I'm just working on resurrecting
> > that port :)
> 
> Little or Big endian ? I still have an RM200 big endian :)

Little endian - still don't have a floppy with the big endian firmware ...

  Ralf

Re: Linux on RM600

[Jan-Benedict Glaw]

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On Thu, 2002-08-15 17:45:49 +0200, Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
wrote in message <20020815174549.A10199@linux-mips.org>:
> On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 01:23:00PM +0200, Florian Lohoff wrote:
> > > Oh, I need my RM200C as a router so I'm just working on resurrecting
> > > that port :)
> > 
> > Little or Big endian ? I still have an RM200 big endian :)
> 
> Little endian - still don't have a floppy with the big endian firmware ...

Flo has got EB, you've got EL. I once again think about an archive of
EPROM, EEPROM and flash contents... That would especially also help
those broken /240 with MOP-only firmware...

MfG, JBG

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Re: Linux on RM600

[Maciej W. Rozycki]

On Fri, 16 Aug 2002, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:

> Flo has got EB, you've got EL. I once again think about an archive of
> EPROM, EEPROM and flash contents... That would especially also help
> those broken /240 with MOP-only firmware...

 Well, MOP actually works reasonably and is overall better supported by
DEC hardware (consider non-working ARP).  Then there is a legal problem --
the license doesn't permit redistribution.

 That said, I have snapshots of: KN03-AA V5.1b (TFTP broken), KN03-AA
V5.2b (OK) and KN05 V2.1k (OK), as well as of PMAG-CA V5.3a.  I have
images of the host accessible areas of: PMAF-AA 5.2 (ROM rev. 1.0,
firmware rev. 1.1) and PMAGB-BA V1.1, but they are flashable and the
layout may be incorrect for the respective flashers, especially the former
lacks m68k firmware.

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