[parisc-linux] Puffin sells out!

[Alex deVries]

Eric Molitor wrote:
> >From all appearences HP has a strong interest in porting Linux to the
> PA-Risc architecture (at least the 2.0 arch.). If I recall correctly
> aren't there some HP employees whom get paid to work on the port (at least
> for 2.0). 

There are, yes.  Take a bow, Grant Grundler and Paul Bame.

> Regardless I've allready heard rumors that the port is dead from
> several people whom are quite distanced from the actual port.

Anyone who thinks this port is dead clearly hasn't been reading the CVS
mailing list or reading the weekly summary of changes.

- Alex

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Alex deVries
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The Puffin Group

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Happy to announce my 9000/720 booted & ran the dummy kernel successfully
from my 2nd disk.

Keep it coming, I have a whole 2nd disk to test this on as it is
developed.  Wish I had some OS Coding knowledge & experience to add to
the project.  I will settle for being a tester :)

Jason Eckhardt wrote:

> If the test runs successfully you should see this at the end:
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Reading parameters...done.
> Size = 28672 bytes, entry = 0x00001000, location = 0xnnnnnnnn.
> Loading kernel...done.
> Transferring control to kernel.
> 
> *********************************************************
> 
> VMLINUX 0.0: Dummy kernel image loaded and executing!
> 
> It is now safe to reboot. (you should see this at least once, and upto 6 times).
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> The very last thing you should see is a "spinning cursor" which means
> you reached the last statement in the bootstrap (i.e. passed). (this is
> an infinite loop, the cursor will spin forever until you reboot).

Got This.

> It seems that some characters get dropped on some systems, usually when
> booting over the network. I don't know why this is the case, and HPs
> documentation doesn't say anything about needing delays during console I/O.

Screen looks good, mine is running on a graphics display, not an ASCII
terminal.

-- 

Justin Hamilton
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CTOP Computers
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