Subject: Re: Ports?
To: None <netbsd-ports@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Michael A Parker <map@mashie.cs.utah.edu>
List: netbsd-ports
Date: 08/20/1996 16:09:51
About half of the HP machines here at the Univ of Utah run BSD.
(Most of the HP support for BSD was developed here.)  So I do know
that you can run BSD on both older HP300 style machines, and PA RISC
machines.

-Mike
On Aug 20, 10:06pm, Guenther Grau wrote:
> Subject: Re: Ports?
> Hi,
>
> > >support for HP's PA is completely
> > >missing. I think that someone started a port but didn't finish it.
> >
> > Anyone one who this was or if there is much info kicking around.
> >
> > I have an HP sitting around doing nothing these days and the thought had
> > briefly crossed my mind about getting NetBSD running on it. Any ground work
> > already done could be of some help. I have not looked into this seriously
yet
> > (been too busy with the arm32 port) but if the technical info is available
(one
> > of the reasons nobody has done an SGI port I gather) I would be interested
in
> > looking into it.
>
> I _think_ there is support for the HP-PA in BSD-4.4-lite2. There is also
Mach3/4,
> that supports HP-PA, AFAIK.
>
>   Guenther
>-- End of excerpt from Guenther Grau