On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 9:18 PM, Thibaut VARÈNE <T-Bone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I suppose we can't put the procedure about how to to do that on the website > for two reasons: > > 1) if my assumptions are right, enabling the extra CPU requires entering > Manufacturing Mode (MFG in PDC parlance) in order to change the Model String > (suppositions based on previous experience with a different machine), which > itself needs a hardware-specific password, generated with an HP tool using > the crypto challenge prompted by the firmware when trying to activate this > mode (been there on another machine). > 2) it would most likely be illegal (and a liability) to either disclose the > means to circumvent HP's upgrading policy or to provide the HP-internal > tools to do so, if ever we had them (which we do not). Even more so since > our website is hosted @HP. I wasn't suggesting putting instructions to circumvent whatever protections HP has in place on the site. I only meant a note saying "don't expect to be able to add another CPU or even upgrade the RAM or CPU." Matt -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-parisc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
