[parisc-linux] Greetings!

[Stan Sieler]

Re:

> I am new to the PA-RISC mailing list, and to the PA-RISC world in

welcome!
> systems and one of these systems that no longer performs this duty is a
> HP E55. Being a junkie I'm naturally trying to find a new job and life
> for this little E55. I have not yet done anything much with it yet as

>From what I recall, the HP 9000/E55 (and the other Ex5 models) is
not supported by Linux, and it won't run.  

>From the "supported" page at http://www.parisc-linux.org/hardware/supported.html

   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 
   E, F, G, H, I class (aka Nova) and T500 series (Emerald) machines as 
   well as some earlier, unlettered servers. 

Your E55 is an E class system :(

OTOH, IIRC, Christoph Plattner did manage to get some form of Linux running on it,
possibly by making major changes to the I/O system...
http://lists.parisc-linux.org/pipermail/parisc-linux/2001-November/014615.html

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Stan Sieler                                           sieler@allegro.com
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