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 KAA30009 for ; Thu, 2 Mar 2000 10:43:40 -0700 Received: from guinness.neep.com.au (reggae-24-224.nv.iinet.net.au [203.59.89.224]) by gothic.iinet.net.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA21203 for ; Thu, 2 Mar 2000 21:02:23 +0800 Received: (from andrew@localhost) by guinness.neep.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian/GNU) id VAA30371 for parisc-linux@thepuffingroup.com; Thu, 2 Mar 2000 21:02:15 +0800 Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 21:02:12 +0800 From: Andrew Shugg To: parisc-linux@thepuffingroup.com Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] Value of an old K-class server? Message-ID: <20000302210210.C30912@neep.com.au> References: <20000301010645.Y30912@neep.com.au> <20000229122439.F9944@thepuffingroup.com> <20000301074847.A13653@neep.com.au> <20000229191712.L9944@thepuffingroup.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <20000229191712.L9944@thepuffingroup.com>; from willy@thepuffingroup.com on Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 07:17:12PM -0500 List-ID: willy@thepuffingroup.com said: > On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 07:48:49AM +0800, Andrew Shugg wrote: > > I'm a bit confused by this. I thought the HP 375 was a PA-RISC thingy. > > Certainly there have been numerous people on this list talking about getting > > their 315's or whatever to boot the parisc-linux kernel. > > Do you perhaps mean the 735 and 715? Ahah - brilliant! This indeed what I meant. Thanks. > > Is a PA7000 not a PA-RISC chip? > > Yes, it is. To complicate matters, there are PA7000 CPUs which implement > the PA1.0 architecture (PCX) and PA7000 CPUs which implement the PA1.1 > architecture (PCX-S). The intention is to support the latter and not > the former. > > Less than a year ago, I didn't know the difference between a PA1.0 and > PA1.1 machine :-) Okay. =) Is it clear at this point what is definitely going to be supported (even if it doesn't work now), and what will _never_ be supported? (ie, basically, what has 1.0 and what has 1.1?) Andrew. -- Andrew Shugg http://www.neep.com.au/ "Just remember Basil, there's always someone worse off than yourself." "Oh, really? I'd like to meet him ... I could do with a good laugh." [ Sybil and Basil Fawlty, "Fawlty Towers" ]