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From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
To: Christoph Plattner <christoph.plattner@alcatel.at>
Cc: Marek GROSSMAN <grossman@nspuh.cz>,
	parisc-linux@thepuffingroup.com, christoph.plattner@dot.at
Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] Boot from tape
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:01:10 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010124170110.B4836@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3A6F02F2.3C4A137C@alcatel.at>; from christoph.plattner@alcatel.at on Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 05:29:38PM +0100

On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 05:29:38PM +0100, Christoph Plattner wrote:
> How can you run Linux ?
> I thought, HP E55 (9000/856) is not full supported, as
> the SCSI driver and the serial multiplexer (8-port serial,
> where my console is configured to port 0) is not supported
> (no driver !).
> Or is there any, and I don't know it ??

If someone wants to put some effort into it... (hint: i don't)

the PDC spec (available from www.parisc-linux.org/documentation.html)
includes calls to perform block io.  there's no practical reason
someone couldn't write drivers/block/pdc.c which performed IO through
this mechanism.  performance would suck, but at least it would work.

-- 
Revolutions do not require corporate support.

      reply	other threads:[~2001-01-24 16:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-01-24 14:07 [parisc-linux] Boot from tape Marek GROSSMAN
2001-01-24 16:29 ` Christoph Plattner
2001-01-24 17:01   ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]

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