[rescue] Time to replace the IPX

[Paul Weissmann]

Jochen Kunz [jkunz at unixag-kl.fh-kl.de] wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 11:59:27AM +0100, Paul Weissmann wrote:
> BTW: I am working on a i82596 driver for *BSD. This should speed up 
> Ethernet on the old hp700 machines a bit. Currently *BSD drives 
> Ethernet only in i82586 mode on hp700. This is quite suboptimal.

The 82596 does also support 100/10, is this correct?
If so, I think I still have some Phobos EISA card for HP 9000s I
could try.

> > The OpenBSD/hppa64 port for machines with CPUs >8000/8200 (i.e. 8500, 8600
> > ...) is in its very early stages. These systems have to boot a 64-bit
> > kernel, they can't run in 32-bit mode (as e.g. the C200) and use a
> > very different I/O-architecture than the 32-bit HP-PAs.
> Interresting to know. I thought about getting a B2000 or the like when
> NetBSD/hp700 is usable. 400 MHz of PA8500 power would be nice, even in
> 32 bit mode. But a NetBSD/hp700-64 is in far, far future.

You misunderstood me - systems with a CPU newer than PA-8200 have a
very different I/O-subsystem than the older ones.

The C200 e.g. still uses a lot of LASI functionality, together with
Dino and Wax and is based in large parts on GSC-devices (although to
a lesser extend than the 32-bit 700s).

The B2000 in turn is based on the Astro system controller together
with Elroy PCI bridges and has zero GSC-devices left.


        - paul

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