Re: m68k: could the Apollo support possibly work?

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Wed, 11 Jun 2008, KolbjÃrn Barmen wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Jun 2008, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 06:48:34PM +0200, KolbjÃrn Barmen wrote:
> > > On Sun, 8 Jun 2008, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Does anyone still have this hardware and tried booting it in recent years?
> > > 
> > > I think I might borrow one from some NetBSD people, if I ask really really
> > > nicely :)
> > 
> > AFAIR NetBSD doesn't support the Apollos.
> 
> OK, I was (and still is) somewhat confused about the defintion of "apollo" :)
> 
> What NetBSD does support is the so called hp300, the Apollo DNXXXXX is not
> supported, allthough there appearantly a guy "working" on it every now and
> then.  http://netbsd.pair.com/Ports/hp300/ 
> 
> What definition of Apollo are we talking about in Linux/m68k context?
> I thought it was http://www.tazenda.demon.co.uk/phil/linux-hp/ which
> actuall is hp300, from what I can tell.

We're talking about the real Apollos (DNxxxx): the machines that used to run
DomainOS, and felt very sad when they couldn't find their friends on the
(token ring) network ;-)

`hp300' means HP/Apollo 9000 machines, more specifically the 300 and 400
series.

Later HP/Apollo 9000 machines (e.g. the 700 series) used PA-RISC, not
m68k.

> > Do you plan to work on getting the Linux support back into shape?
> 
> Heh, no, I was just saying that I might try to boot one :)

"If it compiles, it is good, if it boots up it is perfect."
                                        -- Linus Torvalds.

(for the Apollo, I can only keep it `good' ;-)

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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