From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailserv2.iuinc.com (qmailr@mailserv2.iuinc.com [206.245.164.55]) by puffin.external.hp.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id OAA13414 for ; Wed, 12 May 1999 14:03:41 -0600 Message-Id: <199905122000.NAA15037@milano.cup.hp.com> To: Philipp Rumpf cc: Matthew Wilcox , parisc-linux@thepuffingroup.com Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] Hi In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 12 May 1999 19:42:27 PDT." <19990512194227.52770@insula.local> Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 13:00:04 -0700 From: Grant Grundler List-ID: Philipp Rumpf wrote: > > I'd just like to introduce myself. I've liberated a 715/33 Apollo from > > use as a monitor stand and managed to retrieve all the pieces needed to > > get it as far as a boot prom prompt. It's got 56MB of RAM and a hard disc > > of some description. I've got it attached to the ethernet, though I have > > no idea whether this is working right now. I don't however have anything > > to boot right now - apparently this disc was used for swap when this > > workstations was running HP-UX in the dim distant past (you should see > > the dust). > > I think you have the choice to either wait til Linux is bootable or get a > second hard disk and an HP-UX on it. The disks should be narrow SCSI so the > second disk shouldn't really be much of a problem. Mathew can also download and try to install the PA-mklinux. I have this running on a 712/60 now. I suggest this because I don't know how accessible HP-UX bits are to the general public. HP-UX is usually distributed on CD-ROM these days. Since the source is available for mk-linux, that would suppliment the PA architecture documentation and might provide the kind of implementation detail someone experienced in assembler could use. grant > > > I have no previous experience of the HP architecture, but I'm a dab hand > > at ARM assembler and I'm willing to learn. Anyway, here I am with a > > machine, ready to help. > > OK, first I propose you look at www.thepuffingroup.com/parisc and get just > about everything linked from the Documentation section. What is most importan > t > to get a kernel working fast is acd.pdf (ARM), the runtime architecture docum > ent > and perhaps pdc and iodc descriptions. > > I think it should be theoretically possible to put the disk in a supported > machine, cross-build a kernel and bootloader (oh yeah, perhaps you should > fix the problems with that first ;), put it back into the PARISC aso. but > just getting a version of HP-UX and a second disk seems easier to me. > > Philipp Rumpf > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe: send e-mail to parisc-linux-request@thepuffingroup.com with > `unsubscribe' as the subject. > Grant Grundler Enterprise Systems Technology Lab +1.408.447.7253