[parisc-linux] Status Query .

Hans-Juergen Bergmann hbergman@acm.org
Tue, 05 Oct 1999 11:49:02 +0200



Lars Segerlund wrote:

>  I have a 725/50 ( or something like that ) and I am really interested in doing
>  some work on the hppa, perhaps not the kernel, but some driver would be ok.
>
>  However I do not have HP-UX, so I want to setup the HP, as a linux workstation
>  as a firts step, it seems that there is a booting kernel, but I haven't seen
>  anyone boot a shell och mount a filesystem, am I of the correct oppinion to
>  assume that the kernel have not yet reached this point ??

I think so, you still need HPUX or a cross development system to make something
usefull.

>
>
>  / best regards, lars segerlund.
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I have the same machine with HPUX installed. I have not testet the kernel on it
yet, but I think I will wait a little longer
until I join in. So how is the status of the kernel for this machine type ?
Is it worth starting work on this hardware yet ?

Cheers                H.-J. Bergmann
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