On 2016-03-30, at 5:59 AM, Helge Deller wrote: >> Now, I'm fighting with a very hardware issue: the screws of the PA >> CPUs are non standard hex with a center pin. I hate this things. >> Yesterday evening I was ready to upgrade from a single PA-8800/900 MHz >> to a dual PA-8900/1GHz > > I'm not sure if this will simply work. I was looking at the idea myself > once, and googling for that it seems that some firmware update needs to > be done in order for the machine to accept the additional CPU. > If you do it, please let us know... I had to replace cpu in my rp3440. I asked vendor if it would be possible to increase speed from 800 MHz and they said no. I think it's possible to add a second cpu but don't have any personal experience. The machine did run with one cpu module. The screws are a pain... Dave -- John David Anglin dave.anglin@xxxxxxxx -- 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
