[parisc-linux] [RFC] PA-RISC/Linux Boot HOWTO update

[Corne Beerse]

Thibaut VARENE wrote:

> Hi pa-ckers,
>
> I'm about to release an update to our Boot Howto, but before doing so
> I'd like to get some review from the community, in order to make sure
> I haven't missed the obvious or forgot about something important.
>
> The current howto can be fetched here:
> http://www.pateam.org/archive/tmp/
>
> There's both the PDF (for viewing, though the style will differ a bit
> from other TLDP howtos as I didn't use exactly TLP's DTD) and XML for
> people willing to send patches ;)
>
> I expect to release this sometime next week, so
> feedback/comments/patches welcome!
>

That's a verry nice compilation. I'd like to add some pointers:

The OpenPA Project, that has a very nice overview of old and not so old 
HP hardware: http://www.openpa.net/. I see it as suplemental to your 
chapter 1 on supported hardware: it just contains far more information.

About serial cosoles (your chapter 2.2.2): Add a pointer to make the HP 
9000/712 work on serial console: 
http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/hp700/serialconsole-712.html. Some additions 
to this document: it also includes a way to update the firmware over the 
network, without HP-UX and without a tape-device.

Then there is 
http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/network/netboot/intro.hp700.html, 
the net-bsd document on network booting and diskless operating. I found 
valuable information there, however I see you have covered most (all) of 
it in your document.

Once your document is finished, it would be nice if you inform 
http://www.openpa.net/ about it so they can set a pointer to your document.


Regards

CBee