[parisc-linux] B2000

[parisc-linux] B2000

[Richard Allen]

I just got a B2000 in and I decided to test it with Linux.

The B2000 is a strange beast.  It's got USB keyboard and mouse.
It has a IDE cdrom drive.

The 0.92 iso began booting and loaded the kernel.   It's console (B2000
is a workstation with a graphical console) went blank and the screen went
into powersaving mode.

Judging by the front panel LCD, things went very bad ;)   It was cycling
through many HPMC and FLT codes.

FLT CBF4: SYS BD
Bad OS HPMC cksm

FLT CBFC: SYS BD
Os hpmc br err

FLT CBF0: SYS BD
HPMC initiated

FLT 500B: SYS BD
Bus timeout



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Re: [parisc-linux] B2000

[Grant Grundler]

Richard Allen wrote:
> I just got a B2000 in and I decided to test it with Linux.
> 
> The B2000 is a strange beast.  It's got USB keyboard and mouse.
> It has a IDE cdrom drive.

Yup. none of which is supported yet.
USB support is almost ready.
I need to look at IDE-CDROM support because of issues
with the IDE drivers and DMA. I've got a pile of other
things on my todo list as well so this may take a while.

> The 0.92 iso began booting and loaded the kernel.   It's console (B2000
> is a workstation with a graphical console) went blank and the screen went
> into powersaving mode.

You need to use serial console and boot via LAN and setup
an NFS root to install on a local HD. Lack of CD-ROM support,
issues with SE SCSI on those boxes, and no testing of sticons
(console driver for graphics head) makes installing from CD somewhat
unatractive on that generation of workstation. But several folks
(including me) are running parisc-linux on C3000, J5000, and J7000
machines. It's just not easy to install yet.

> Judging by the front panel LCD, things went very bad ;)   It was cycling
> through many HPMC and FLT codes.

Could be any one of the unsupported devices or bugs in the older kernel.

There is talk of a 0.9.3 ISO but no plan of when to release it.
I'd expect in the next month or so.

grant

Grant Grundler
parisc-linux {PCI|IOMMU|SMP} hacker
+1.408.447.7253

[parisc-linux] B2000

[Witvliet, Hans]

LS
Even though under "tested hardware"  it stated : B, C and J workstations 

I noticed that there were some difficulties with the B2000 in previous
versions
With the latest version (0.93) I still get after booting (from internal
cdrom-drive):

FLT CBF4: SYS BD 
Bad OS HPMC cksm 
FLT CBFC: SYS BD 
Os hpmc br err 
FLT CBF0: SYS BD 
HPMC initiated 
FLT 500B: SYS BD 
Bus timeout 

(hangs)

Kind regards, Hans

Re: [parisc-linux] B2000

[Grant Grundler]

"Witvliet, Hans" wrote:
> LS
> Even though under "tested hardware"  it stated : B, C and J workstations 

The kernel runs those boxes.

> I noticed that there were some difficulties with the B2000 in previous
> versions
> With the latest version (0.93) I still get after booting (from internal
> cdrom-drive):

Built-in IDE cd-rom drive on BCJ-[123567]XXX is not supported.
Off and on I've been hacking on suckyio IDE support but it's still
not working.

Install from either external SCSI CD-ROM or via network.

grant

Re: [parisc-linux] B2000

[Grant Grundler]

Grant Grundler wrote:
> Built-in IDE cd-rom drive on BCJ-[123567]XXX is not supported.
> Off and on I've been hacking on suckyio IDE support but it's still
> not working.

In case anyone else wants to take a whack at IDE, I've posted my latest
diff on
	ftp://ftp.parisc-linux.org/patches/ide-2.4.17-pa13.diff

I won't be looking at this for the next week or so...too many other
things to do atm.

grant