Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Linux for the HP Apollo | Date | Tue, 30 Jul 1996 17:02:19 -0600 | From | Drew Eckhardt <> |
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In message <m0ulLND-0005FbC@lightning.swansea.linux.org.uk>, alan@lxorguk.ukuu. org.uk writes: >> About to purchase an HP Apollo 730 Series I believe and was wondering >> if a version of Linux exists, or is in developement, for the HP Risc >> processor?
As far as I know, no.
If you want to avoid hockey pux, you might also look into the University of Utah's HPBSD, which runs (ran?).
The last time I checked (1992), the source tree sufferred from both USL and HP contamination (ie, you'd need both a UNIX source license and HP NDA), and it was a heinous mix of 4.3 Reno and 4.4 (the big thing I remember was the 4.4 VFS grafted onto a Reno kernel. Ick.) although things may have changed by now.
>Im not sure of the state of the GNU tools for the HP Risc.
When I last looked at HPBSD, I was running Utah's port of the GNU tools under HPUX; presumably those changes have been folded into the mainline tools by now.
>One thing when >this was thrown about earlier on linuxnet IRC was from an OSF guy - the >OSF Mach microkernel (which the Linux PowerMAC project uses) supports >HP/PA
If that's the case, you _may_ (HP/PA is only part of the problem - you also need device drivers, and HP was unwilling to share the necessary information sans NDA as of 1992) be able to run a Linux single server.
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