Re: Debian on rp 7400
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 03:02:26PM -0600, Conan C. Albrecht wrote:
> Thanks for the response. At the risk of appearing a bit foolish, may I
> ask another question?
>
> Given your response, if we installed Debian on the 7400 (given SMP
> won't work currently), what would happen? Would the kernel simply use
> 1 processor and 7 processors will sit dormant? Or will all 8 be used
> but just not share memory?
If you install an SMP kernel, it will likely crash.
If you install a UP kernel (built w/o SMP support), 7 CPUs would get
ignored.
> I've looked into SMP, but I want to be sure I have a definite answer
> before I make recommendations for the machine.
Donate one to ESIEE or some other place that has too many brilliant
students who don't have anything better to do :^)
Until VM stuff gets fixed, I'd keep running HPUX on the box.
See "The Porting Center" for open source packages in swdepot format.
grant
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Conan
>
> On Wednesday, August 6, 2003, at 02:52 PM, Grant Grundler wrote:
>
> >On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 10:43:46AM -0600, Conan C. Albrecht wrote:
> >>We have an RP 7400 (N-class) server with 8 processors (2GB ram per
> >>processor). It's a very nice machine and is only a few years old. :)
> >
> >Yes. it's a wonderful machine. 8 CPU. 6 GB/s backplane. 12 4X PCI
> >slots.
> >
> >>Does anyone have experience installing Debian on the 7400 (N-class)?
> >>The list archives show gururaj@cup.hp.com successfully put it on a
> >>smaller n-class in non-smp mode. We, of course, want to use all 8
> >>processors.
> >
> >IIRC, "non-equivalently mapped aliases" cause N-class and L-3000
> >to not operate in SMP mode correctly. Someone who understands parisc
> >and linux vm would need suitable motivation to fix this. I can send
> >trader joes organic dark chocolate if that would help. :^)
> >
> >BTW< this topic has been thoroughly discussed on parisc-linux
> >mailing list. See www.parisc-linux.org mailing list archives.
> >
> >>The machine does not have a CD drive, floppy drive, but we've been
> >>able
> >>to at least start using the tiny FTP method. The kernel starts
> >>loading
> >>but then the machine freezes as if it is an incompatible kernel. We
> >>haven't tried the newer 3.0 image yet.
> >
> >best to use the netinstall ISO from:
> > ftp://ftp.parisc-linux.org/cd-images/testing/auto-isos/
> >
> > http://pateam.esiee.fr/
> >
> >grant
> >
> >>Any experiences or thoughts are appreciated. Thanks.
> >>
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> >>Conan C. Albrecht, Ph.D.
> >>Brigham Young University
> >>conan_albrecht@byu.edu
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> >
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