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.
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.
>