On 10/23/2018 04:08 PM, Helge Deller wrote:
On 23.10.2018 20:59, Aaro Koskinen wrote:
On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 02:15:42PM -0400, John David Anglin wrote:
On 2018-10-23 12:56 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote:
Or is there some minimal PA-RISC hardware you could
suggest that would run the latest kernel and some userland?
The c8000, rp3410 and rp3440 are good choices to run PA-RISC linux. They can
still be found on ebay:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/A7137A-HP-9000-rp3440-2x-1Ghz-PA-8800-CPU-8GB-2U-Rackmount-Server-/173226213196?_trksid=p2349526.m4383.l4275.c10#viTabs_0
"2U rack" doesn't sound minimal. :-)
I have been running the latest mainline kernel on C3700 for some years
already without issues. I guess it was supposed to be a "desktop"
machine, but it's still a bit too big and noisy, so for daily use I'm
still sticking with Ultra 5 (SPARC) machine..
I can not recommend *any* PA-RISC machine as desktop or workstation nowadays.
They are noisy, expensive, slow and we have very limited graphics support.
Every x86-64 based laptop or desktop is much better suited as desktop.
Helge
yep ... same goes for sparc.
If I could figure out the power requirements however it would be a
really great fun experiment to fire up : https://i.imgur.com/OnicmG1.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/Wj6sDEM.png
https://i.imgur.com/jzZCCEK.jpg
So an external scsi drive pack/array and some serial and ethernet and
about $5,000 worth of power systems and who knows what else.
Dennis
