Hi!  There is now a binary snapshot of NetBSD/hp700 available under:

ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/hp700/snapshot/20011209-1.5Z/

General Notes:

0.  Again, this whole project started with Michael Shalayeff's
    OpenBSD/hppa port.  Without his work as the foundation
    I'd be nowhere.

1.  This is really, really alpha stuff.  No foolin.  Use at 
    your own risk.  I keep the power to my HP/UX drive 
    disconnected while testing.

2.  This snapshot has been tested on exactly one machine:
    An HP 9000/715/50 with 48MB of RAM and a serial console.  
    I have no idea if any other machine type or configuration
    will work.

3.  This is very much a netboot/diskless-only snapshot.  There
    is no support for booting off of disk, or mounting root
    on a disk.  This will change once I start committing and 
    can work with itohy to incorporate his work in this area.

Known Problems:

1.  You will see "ie0: receive descriptors out of sync" and 
    "ie0: reset" messages.  While I haven't debugged these yet, 
    I'm pretty sure they're due to a cache coherency issue.
    This problem does *not* seem to affect system stability,
    which is why I haven't dealt with it yet.

2.  This snapshot is afflicted with the bug discussed in the
    "nfs crash" thread on current-users in February.  This
    *does* affect system stability, with the occasional crash.
    A later snapshot will fix this.

How To Use It:

Setting up to run diskless is similar to other architectures.
I added an hp700 page to the Diskless NetBSD HOW-TO, at:

http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/network/netboot/intro.hp700.html

which should fill in the hp700-specific details.  To set up the
serial console on your 715, see the FAQ entry at:

http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/hp700/faq.html

(I just committed this last page, so it may need an hour or so to
show up on www.)

So try out the snapshot, and report success and failure to the list.  
Thanks!

Matt

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Matt Fredette