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 LAA17737 for ; Sun, 26 Mar 2000 11:24:28 -0700 From: willy@thepuffingroup.com Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 13:26:01 -0500 To: Bas Valkema Cc: parisc-linux@thepuffingroup.com Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] Couple of questions Message-ID: <20000326132601.A29108@thepuffingroup.com> References: <20000326122048.75837.qmail@hotmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <20000326122048.75837.qmail@hotmail.com>; from Bas Valkema on Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 02:17:01PM +0200 List-ID: On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 02:17:01PM +0200, Bas Valkema wrote: > 1 - how does a 715/50 boot over a network? Probably not bootp... rbootd. There's an RPM and a tgz on puffin.external.hp.com in /pub/parisc/binaries/ > 2 - what is the maximum size of memory(module) (8 slots) supported in the 715/50? And what does Linux support? not sure. You need to add them in pairs. It's documented in the Hardware Compatibility List that's available from the documentation page. > 3 - What does the TOC button do???? Transfer Of Control. It resets the machine. > 4 - Linux reports SCSI-Clock of 50MHz, this is probably wrong, right? According to the documentation we have, that is correct. > 5 - I am willing to write a fb-driver, but can't find any specs of the graphics adapter.. we're working on getting those specs released. steve shack is already working on it though. > 6 - Is someone (thinking of) porting ld.so?? yes, it's part of glibc. > 7 - Is it possible to use an ext2fs partition as root? The SCSI driver isn't working yet. If you want to add support for the NCR53c700 which is in the 715/50, then you will be very popular :-)