Subject: Re: hp700 part of next release?
To: None <port-hp700@netbsd.org>
From: Kirill Levchenko <kirill@lava.net>
List: port-hp700
Date: 05/10/2003 11:22:23
On 5/10/03 Izumi Tsutsui wrote:

>    For some newer machines (like 712/60) requires dhcpd patch:
>http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-hp700/2002/03/04/0000.html
>    but I don't know it is fixed the recent dhcp in -current.

If I remember correctly from looking at the tcpdump stream, the problem was
that the DHCP packet headers had inconsistent lengths: i.e., IP header said
length is X and UDP header said it's Y, and when you did the math, you were
off by 4 bytes. This wasn't a big deal for bootpd, but dhcpd did strict
consistency checking and rejected the packets.

On 5/10/03 Jochen Kunz wrote:

>Well, when I get that PowerStack II port done, I have free resources
>for hp700 hacking and several hp700 machines (715/33, 715/100xc,
>712/60, 720, E55, B132L) to work on. Unfortunately I am not a
>tool-chain guru, so I can not fix the tool-chain problems.
>
>No tool-chain => no hacking.

:(

>No, the i386 => hppa X-tool-chain is no solution. I have several
>(Ultra)SPARC, Alpha, PowerPC, VAX, sgimips, ... machines that I can
>use, but no PeeCee.

Would a shell account on a PC help? There is a list at:

	http://www.rmkhome.com/NetBSD/

It would be nice to see more work on the hp700 port, especially
non-diskless support.



Kirill