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>Chapter 1. Supported Hardware</H1
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>With the release of PA-RISC architecture in Debian<61>3.0
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>, the kernel has been
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greatly improved, so that much unsupported hardware by the time 0.9.3 went out
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is now handled. That's why even if your model is not listed here, you might
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give it a try and report your result to the mailing list:
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>Mind that as of this document's publication date, the 2.4 series of the
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Linux kernel are deemed obsolete, and no development happens in that branch.
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Any new comer to the PA-RISC/Linux port should look at the 2.6 kernel series,
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which supports much more hardware than the 2.4 does. Accordingly, one will not try
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>The following PA-RISC machines should work just fine, provided that you follow the
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including special boot procedures.
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> SMP machines should work with SMP kernels (and UP ones, of course) unless stated otherwise.
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>All 712 models.</P
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>All 715 models including Strider series.</P
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>All 705, 710, 720, 730, 750 models should work.</P
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>Some 725, 735 (no HVD SCSI), 755 models are now working.
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>The VME-like systems are supported. This includes 742 and 743.</P
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>A500, and similar (rp2400 series).</P
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>BXXX models like B132, B160 and B180. These boxes can be used in the
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>BXXXX models like B1000, B2000 and B2600. These boxes can be used with
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>CXXX models like C100, C110, C160, C180, C200, C240, C360.</P
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>CXXXX models. Indeed, BXXXX and CXXXX are the same kind of machines,
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based on Astro/Elroy (aka SBA/LBA) chipsets with varying CPU speeds,
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number of memory/PCI slots. C3000, C3600, C3750 are reported to be working.</P
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>D class works unless you have a Remote Management Card installed. Even then,
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>K class is supported if you are using recent ISO images (<EM
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Sarge ones).</P
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>L class and similar (rp5400 series).</P
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>N class: N4000 (some rp7400 series are reported to work).</P
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> These are not really working yet but work is being carried on.
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>The current 8-way (and bigger) machines using SX1000 chipset and pa8800
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> No plan to get the following hardware completely supported in the near future:
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>E class: E35 and E55 are known to work diskless. The SCSI support is not expected
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>SuperDome: It boots "single-cell", multi-IOMMU doesn't work.</P
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>T 5XX and V class: Nobody is working on it at the moment.</P
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>rp8400: these are cell based and probably don't work yet.</P
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> The following hardware might never work:
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>Vis-FX graphic adapters.</P
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