Re: HP 9000/332 support?

[Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost>]

(an old topic)
cmhanson@ wrote:

> It turns out that an HP 9000/332 will be identified by NetBSD as
> a 9000/340 and can boot with 8MB. Unfortunately with so little
> memory and no attached HP-IB or SCSI disk, such a system will
> take literally all day to boot, and MUST have /etc/rc modified
> to swap to a file on the network-mounted / in order to make it
> through /etc/rc.
> 
> Another issue I've noticed is that the HP 98343A video card is
> recognized as 1024x400@4bpp instead of 512x400@4bpp, so upon
> switch from the secondary booter to the kernel, wscons text is
> compressed and difficult to read. It might be necessary to
> special-case the 98343A for this if its ROM is returning the
> wrong data.

I've got 98543 DIO-II board via ebay so I'll check this issue soon
on my 380.

Note there was the similar discussion here back in 2013:
 https://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-hp300/2013/09/30/msg000088.html

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Izumi Tsutsui