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OpenBSD/hppa improvements

Contributed by merdely on from the pc-load-letter dept.

Mark Kettenis (kettenis@) wrote hppa@ & misc@ about some recent OpenBSD/hppa improvements:

Over the last few weeks I've made some important improvements to the OpenBSD/hppa port. Support for newer B/C/J-class workstations was added, and basically anything but the C8000 should just work. I've also fixed a rather critical bug, which makes machines with a PA-7200 CPU usable again (and makes machines with other CPU's much more stable). And last but not least, support for the NCR 53C720 Fast-Wide SCSI found on many hppa machines has been added to siop(4).

With all these changes, I have reason to believe that most of the so far unsupported D-class and K-class servers should just work, or will work with just a small tweak to the code here and there. Unfortunately I don't have such hardware myself, so if people have access to one of these machines, could they give the latest snapshot a go on them and send me (and dmesg@openbsd.org) a copy of the dmesg?

Thanks,
Mark

So go to your favorite mirror, download and install the latest snapshot and send your dmesg in!

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  1. By Anonymous Coward (122.49.174.247) on

    Can I assume the Aug 7 snapshot does not contain the NCR 53C720 driver? I destroyed about 20x2gb fw drives for their magnets last year so I can't use my card anyhow... :(

    [ using 325396 bytes of bsd ELF symbol table ]
    Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
    	The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.
    Copyright (c) 1995-2007 OpenBSD. All rights reserved.  http://www.OpenBSD.org
    
    OpenBSD 4.2 (GENERIC) #593: Tue Aug  7 11:41:29 MDT 2007
        deraadt@hppa.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/hppa/compile/GENERIC
    HP 9000/735/130 (Snake Cheetah) PA-RISC 1.1a
    real mem = 184549376 (524288 reserved for PROM, 5885952 used by OpenBSD)
    avail mem = 174346240
    mainbus0 at root [flex fff80000]
    pdc0 at mainbus0
    power0 at mainbus0: not available
    mem0 at mainbus0 offset ffbf000: size 176MB
    cpu0 at mainbus0 offset ffbe000 irq 31: PCXL L1-A 125MHz, FPU PCXT (Rolex - CMOS-26B) rev 1
    cpu0: 256K(32b/l) Icache, 256K(32b/l) wr-back Dcache, 120 coherent TLB, 16 BTLB
    mongoose0 at mainbus0 offset c000000 irq 17: HWPC000 rev 34, 33 MHz
    eisa0 at mongoose0
    isa at mongoose0 not configured
    asp0 at mainbus0 offset 82f000 irq 28: Hardball rev 20, lan 1 scsi 7
    gsc0 at asp0: wordleds
    harmony0 at gsc0 offset 1000000 irq 13: rev 0
    audio0 at harmony0
    "NCR 53C720 FW-SCSI" at gsc0 (type a sv 7c mod 0 hv 90) offset 830000 not configured
    lpt0 at gsc0 offset 824000 irq 7
    com1 at gsc0 offset 822000 irq 6: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo
    com0 at gsc0 offset 823000 irq 5: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo
    com0: console
    hil0 at gsc0 offset 821000 irq 1
    ie0 at gsc0 offset 826000 irq 8: i82596DX v0.0, address 08:00:09:1b:e8:fd
    oosiop0 at gsc0 offset 825000 irq 9: NCR53C700 rev 0, 31MHz, SCSI ID 7
    scsibus0 at oosiop0: 8 targets
    sd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0:  SCSI2 0/direct fixed
    sd0: 2157MB, 6300 cyl, 4 head, 175 sec, 512 bytes/sec, 4419464 sec total
    sd1 at scsibus0 targ 1 lun 0:  SCSI2 0/direct fixed
    sd1: 1006MB, 2700 cyl, 9 head, 84 sec, 512 bytes/sec, 2061108 sec total
    sti0 at mainbus0 offset 8000000 irq 11: HPA1659A rev 8.02;10, ID 0x26D1482A40A00499
    sti0: 2048x1024 frame buffer, 1280x1024x8 display, offset 768x0
    sti0: 10x20 font type 1, 40 bpc, charset 0-255
    biomask 0x7 netmask 0xf ttymask 0x3f
    bootpath: 2/0/1.0 class=1 flags=c0 hpa=0xf0825000 spa=0x0 io=0x6abc
    hil0: no devices
    wsdisplay0 at sti0 mux 1
    wsdisplay0: screen 0 added (std, vt100 emulation)
    root on sd0a swap on sd0b dump on sd0b
    WARNING: preposterous time in file system -- CHECK AND RESET THE DATE!
    ie0: receive descriptors out of sync at 19
    

  2. By marklar (203.11.81.235) on

    Sigh... I just this week got rid of my D280 'cos I didn't have anything to run on it apart from a clunky HP-UX version.

  3. By Chas (147.154.235.52) on

    ...but I certainly don't want to wipe HP-UX off of them.

    Among these are PA1 K200s, and PA2 K380s.

    Is it safe to boot the installer? Does the firmware matter?

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