Hi.

Now that we are at it:
I was able to build a new 2.0E based snapshot. There are still things
missing and ugly bugs, but be prepared to get a new toy in some days /
weeks. Most likely this will suport all PA7[13][0-9][0-9] based
machines. PA7000 and PA7200 support is broken (or better: it was never
working) so machines like the  705, 710, 720, 750, J- and K-Class will
not work. I plan to add PA7200 support once the snapshoot is out and in
an at least partial usable state. PA7000 support may never happen due to
ENOTIME.

If you want to help:

src/sys/arch/hp700/stand/mkboot is the program to generate LIF files.
HP700 machines need LIF files for booting. Currently this source is not
very portable. (It was a nightmare to get it build on IRIX...) If
someone wants to contribute make this source portable by autoconfig-ing
it or whatever. It needs to be added to the host tools so that it ends
as $TOOLDIR/bin/nbmkboot. This is a prerequirement to get proper
instalation tools / images generated when building a release.=20

Instalation tools: They don't exist. It would be nice if someone else
could take care of adding the MI bits to the source to get them build
with a release.=20

If there is a GCC hacker among us: The hppa target in GCC has some bugs.
One bug shows up when the kernel is compiled with -O2. mem.c fails to
compile with an assembler message. (Looks like an instruction with a too
big displacement.) The other bug is LP64 related. Try to build hppa code
on a LP64 machine (tested an Alpha and UltraSPARC) and you will get
"internal compiler error".=20
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tsch=FC=DF,
       Jochen

Homepage: http://www.unixag-kl.fh-kl.de/~jkunz/