date and time created 92/10/23 16:13:11 by bostic

SCCS-vsn: admin/admin/HP/HPSUPPORT.t 5.1

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+.TL
+HP9000/300 series support in the 4.3 Reno distribution
+.AU
+Mike Hibler (mike@cs.utah.edu)
+.AI
+University of Utah
+.LP
+.B
+Due to various considerations, the 4.3 Reno release does not include a
+bootable distribution for the HP9000 series 300 CPUs.
+However, we believe that it does include all the necessary sources to
+construct a fully-functional BSD system given a suitable cross-compilation
+environment to bootstrap in.
+.LP
+Hardware supported:
+.TS
+lw(1i) lw(4i).
+SPUs   T{
+318, 319, 320, 330, 340, 345, 350, 360, 370, 375
+(all 68020 and 68030 based SPUs except 332).
+T}
+
+DISKs  T{
+All HP SCSI drives (including 650/A magneto-optical) on 98265A and 98658A
+interfaces.
+A variety of old and new CS80 drives
+(7912, 7914, 7933, 7936, 7937, 7945, 7957A/B, 7958A/B, 7959A/B)
+on 98262A, 98624A and 98625A/B interfaces.
+T}
+
+TAPEs  T{
+9144 and 9145 CS80 cartridge drives.
+T}
+
+SERIAL T{
+98644 built-in single port and 98642 4-port.
+T}
+
+LAN    T{
+98643 internal and external.
+T}
+
+DISPLAY        T{
+98544-98547 "topcat",
+98548-98550 "catseye",
+98700/98710 "gatorbox",
+98720/98721 "Renaissance",
+98730/98731 "DaVinci".
+T}
+.TE
+.LP
+The kernel is completely compatible at the system call level with the VAX
+or Tahoe equivalent.
+However, not all kernel facilities have been tested on an HP,
+for example, the ISO protocol family support.
+.LP
+One significant feature of the HP implementation is emulation for most
+HP-UX system calls (as of release 6.5).
+This means that many HP-UX binaries and third party applications will
+run unchanged.
+This is particularly useful for running Starbase graphics applications.
+.LP
+GCC 1.36 is included as the standard compiler for the kernel,
+utilities and all user applications.
+The GNU assembler (GAS) and debugger (GDB) are also standard tools.
+There is currently no FORTRAN, Pascal or Lisp support,
+though the native HP-UX compilers will run under BSD.
+.LP
+The HP300 series support is derived from the 4.3bsd port distributed by
+the University of Utah though it is not completely backward compatible
+with it or with the related More/BSD release from Mt. Xinu.
+.LP
+We would like to thank all those who contributed to the evolution of BSD
+on the HP300.
+These include:
+University of California at Berkeley,
+University of Colorado,
+University of Oregon,
+Oregon State University,
+University of Wisconsin,
+University College London,
+Victoria University of Wellington,
+Lawrence Berkeley Labs,
+Free Software Foundation,
+Mt Xinu, HP Labs
+and last but not least the HP Research Grants Program for
+their generous support.