On Friday 14 February 2003 11:38 am, Cary White wrote:
[... big snip of stuff I certainly agree with ;) ]

> I just wish there was a way to load Redhat on my 979-400......it would
> scream!

Take a look into: http://www.parisc-linux.org/

The writeup below was scarfed from the "supported' page.  Note that this page
references HP-9000 models, not 3000 -- you'll have to translate what a 979 is
to the appropriate 9000 series.  OTOH, you can pick up used "9000" series
machines for a song on e-bay nowadays...  [and YES, I have managed to get
linux loaded onto a 715 workstation -- I think I paid maybe $50 for it...]

SERVERS
 The earliest PA-RISC servers have proprietary HP devices attached to
proprietary HP bus architectures. Documentation on these busses and devices
will not become available soon since no one in HP is finding, "scrubbing",
and releasing the docs. Machines in this category are the F, G, H, I class
(aka Nova) and T500 series (Emerald) machines as well as some earlier,
unlettered servers.


The T600 is unlikely to ever be supported. Though T600 uses some of the same
GSC devices (eg card-mode Dino 100BT, Zalon FWD SCSI) as K-class, T600 has
the Java I/O MMU, instead of U2, which is NOT I/O coherent. Linux PCI drivers
require I/O coherency.


Support for the E class is being pursued. Similar to K class in some ways, it
requires the Mux driver for console and does not yet have SCSI or Centronics
support. Network support is the same as 712. GSC add-in cards should work,
HP-PB cards will not yet.


The D, K and R class machines are at least partially supported. These machines
are architecturally similar to the older B, C and J class workstations and
share most of the I/O devices, busses (GSC) and processors. The console on K
class and the optional console card on D/R class are now supported. Most of
the other HP-PB (aka NIO) devices aren't supported due to lack of
documentation -- the same documentation which makes the Nova/Emerald machines
unsupportable.


The A180, L1000/2000, and A400/A500 servers are supported. Support for L3000,
N class, and Superdome will someday follow. The "larger" machines all require
additional I/O subsystem support. Superdome requires some additional VM work
which is in progress.


People ask about V-class. V-class has a very different architecture from other
HP machines. See the Server Architecture Reference for details. One major
known problem with supporting V-class is the complexity of its PCI bus
adapter (EPIC and SAGA). Support for the V-class isn't going to happen until
some really masochistic person who has access to a V-class is, uh, challenged
by this.


A list of currently supported hardware is maintained by the ESIEE Team, you
should take a look here [ http://pateam.esiee.fr/list.html]for any precise
material.
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