[parisc-linux] HP releasing docs...

[Eric Molitor]

On Thu, 16 Dec 1999, Alex deVries wrote:

> Alan Cox wrote:
> > > Ideally, though, developers will have access to all the hardware they're
> > > porting to.
> > Irrespective of who they work for ?
> 
> I actually meant that they'd have docs for the hardware they're porting
> too, but this is true too.
> 
> I think we've been pretty blind in giving hardware out at the start, and
> I don't see this changing.
> 
> However, what doesn't make sense is to ship people hardware that contain
> critical components that either a) don't yet have drivers written or b)
> we can't send docs on.

Oddly enough what about those of us out there with copies of old HP/UX?
Having only an old copy of HP/UX there is no way that I can compile a
kernel. Is there anyway a machine can be put online for uses such as this?
(Similar to what debian is doing with the Rebel Computing ne Corel
Netwinder?) I've got a machine and a DS3 at work which can be utilized for
such a purpose. (Via our client Novare we allready host the Debian master
server. [master.debian.org]) I just dont have an OS...

Is there any interest in this?

- Eric Molitor