At 06:04 AM 25/09/2003, George France sent this up the stick:
The 7.2 RH Alpha distribution, was tested on the GS160. Although this hardware it is not officially supported by HP on the RH-7.2 distribution, it should just work.
The update 2.4.18 kernel from HP was recently booted on a GS160 system without
a graphical console. This was done for the testing other systems features.
It may or may not be complete.
As far as I know Linux has not been tried on the GS140 aka Turbo-Laser system,
but it should run $MS NT.
FreeBSD 4.8 and 5.1 run on it (Release note quotes as an 8400 or 8200). At least it's a free OS, unlike NT
cheers, Rob
On Tuesday 23 September 2003 07:03 pm, Pasi Pirhonen wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 05:40:47PM -0500, Kelledin wrote: > > On Tuesday 23 September 2003 05:22 pm, Pasi Pirhonen wrote: > > > No it's not. This is AlphaServer 8400 (upgraded to GS140) and > > > you're talking about GS160, which is AFAIK different machine. > > > > Ah sorry, my bad. I apparently misread it. :/ > > nope > > > As for the GS140/8400...Linux support is apparently not so great. > > > > :( To the best of my knowledge, the problem is supporting the > > > > PCI buses in that thing. If a generic kernel doesn't work, it's > > liable to require some kernel hacking to fix this. > > > > Perhaps we could get the docs from HP? This is an ancient > > machine, but you never know. > > I really don't know what HP is doing. As they are obviously supporting > linux/alpha and they have all the documentation. The problem might be > the will for supporting this kind of archs. Don't really know about > that either. Compaq previously released even 'RedHat 7.2', which is > mark for 'support', but is it potically correct to let linux run on > this kind of hardware :) > > > The show-stopper isn't bootstrapping from SRM to the Linux kernel > > so much as it is getting the Linux kernel to actually deal with > > the machine. So that leaves testing via bootfloppy as an > > option, so that's a little more convenient. Just start with a > > kernel compiled for SMP-generic and work from there. >
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