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Brian A. Seklecki | 13 Aug 2002 09:02

HP 700 series frambuffer support (GIO Graphics?)

...obviously this is quite a-ways down the road for port-700 series
development, but I was curious -- what are the chances of working torwards
XFree86 support for this series onboard FB?  From my DMESG:

"GIO Graphics" at mainbus0 (type a, sv 85) hpa f8000000 not configured

The user's manual is available at:

http://www.hp.com/workstations/support/archive/manuals/A2615-90602.pdf

But it's very superficial.  I'm having trouble finding info about this IC in
google.  I'll try to get a serial number of the mainboard.  Apparently the
HP-UX X server is based off of X11R5, so support has exists at one point or
another.  X11R6 seems to have support in: xc/programs/Xserver/hw/hp/

Ideas?

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Re: HP 700 series frambuffer support (GIO Graphics?)

On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 03:02:55AM -0400, Brian A. Seklecki wrote:
>
> X11R6 seems to have support in: xc/programs/Xserver/hw/hp/

i can confirm -- i have compiled and used the server from
R6.4 under hp-ux, and though the performance is not as good
as the server shipped by hp, it does work. as far as what it
wants in the way of kernel interface though, i'm not sure...

-w
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Jens Owen | 13 Aug 2002 16:46

Re: HP 700 series frambuffer support (GIO Graphics?)

Brian A. Seklecki wrote:

> ...obviously this is quite a-ways down the road for port-700 series
> development, but I was curious -- what are the chances of working torwards
> XFree86 support for this series onboard FB?  From my DMESG:
> 
> "GIO Graphics" at mainbus0 (type a, sv 85) hpa f8000000 not configured
> 
> The user's manual is available at:
> 
> http://www.hp.com/workstations/support/archive/manuals/A2615-90602.pdf
> 
> But it's very superficial.  I'm having trouble finding info about this IC in
> google.  I'll try to get a serial number of the mainboard.  Apparently the
> HP-UX X server is based off of X11R5, so support has exists at one point or
> another.  X11R6 seems to have support in: xc/programs/Xserver/hw/hp/
> 
> Ideas?

Brian,

The HP 712 Workstation is over 10 years old.  So realize that platform 
is similar in performance to a P5-150 with a Matrox Millenium graphics 
chip.  I've got one here in my office if anyone wants to pay for shipping.

I don't believe HP has released any specifications, but the Puffin Group 
was sponsered by HP to port Linux to HP-PA processors and may have 
gotten the graphics chip specs.  The name of the graphics chip is "Artist".

You can look at the sources in the xc/programs/Xserver/hw/hp tree.  The
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Jens Owen | 13 Aug 2002 16:46

Re: [Xpert]HP 700 series frambuffer support (GIO Graphics?)

Brian A. Seklecki wrote:

> ...obviously this is quite a-ways down the road for port-700 series
> development, but I was curious -- what are the chances of working torwards
> XFree86 support for this series onboard FB?  From my DMESG:
> 
> "GIO Graphics" at mainbus0 (type a, sv 85) hpa f8000000 not configured
> 
> The user's manual is available at:
> 
> http://www.hp.com/workstations/support/archive/manuals/A2615-90602.pdf
> 
> But it's very superficial.  I'm having trouble finding info about this IC in
> google.  I'll try to get a serial number of the mainboard.  Apparently the
> HP-UX X server is based off of X11R5, so support has exists at one point or
> another.  X11R6 seems to have support in: xc/programs/Xserver/hw/hp/
> 
> Ideas?

Brian,

The HP 712 Workstation is over 10 years old.  So realize that platform 
is similar in performance to a P5-150 with a Matrox Millenium graphics 
chip.  I've got one here in my office if anyone wants to pay for shipping.

I don't believe HP has released any specifications, but the Puffin Group 
was sponsered by HP to port Linux to HP-PA processors and may have 
gotten the graphics chip specs.  The name of the graphics chip is "Artist".

You can look at the sources in the xc/programs/Xserver/hw/hp tree.  The
(Continue reading)

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Brian A. Seklecki | 16 Aug 2002 06:03

Re: HP 700 series frambuffer support (GIO Graphics?)

On Tue, 13 Aug 2002  <at>  8:46am (-0600), Jens Owen wrote:

JO> Brian A. Seklecki wrote:
JO>
JO> > ...obviously this is quite a-ways down the road for port-700 series
JO> > development, but I was curious -- what are the chances of working torwards
JO> > XFree86 support for this series onboard FB?  From my DMESG:
JO> >
JO> > "GIO Graphics" at mainbus0 (type a, sv 85) hpa f8000000 not configured
JO> >
JO> > The user's manual is available at:
JO> >
JO> > http://www.hp.com/workstations/support/archive/manuals/A2615-90602.pdf
JO> >
JO> > But it's very superficial.  I'm having trouble finding info about this IC in
JO> > google.  I'll try to get a serial number of the mainboard.  Apparently the
JO> > HP-UX X server is based off of X11R5, so support has exists at one point or
JO> > another.  X11R6 seems to have support in: xc/programs/Xserver/hw/hp/
JO> >
JO> > Ideas?
JO>
JO> Brian,
JO>
JO> The HP 712 Workstation is over 10 years old.  So realize that platform
JO> is similar in performance to a P5-150 with a Matrox Millenium graphics
JO> chip.  I've got one here in my office if anyone wants to pay for shipping.
JO>
JO> I don't believe HP has released any specifications, but the Puffin Group
JO> was sponsered by HP to port Linux to HP-PA processors and may have
JO> gotten the graphics chip specs.  The name of the graphics chip is "Artist".
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Brian A. Seklecki | 16 Aug 2002 06:03

Re: [Xpert]HP 700 series frambuffer support (GIO Graphics?)

On Tue, 13 Aug 2002  <at>  8:46am (-0600), Jens Owen wrote:

JO> Brian A. Seklecki wrote:
JO>
JO> > ...obviously this is quite a-ways down the road for port-700 series
JO> > development, but I was curious -- what are the chances of working torwards
JO> > XFree86 support for this series onboard FB?  From my DMESG:
JO> >
JO> > "GIO Graphics" at mainbus0 (type a, sv 85) hpa f8000000 not configured
JO> >
JO> > The user's manual is available at:
JO> >
JO> > http://www.hp.com/workstations/support/archive/manuals/A2615-90602.pdf
JO> >
JO> > But it's very superficial.  I'm having trouble finding info about this IC in
JO> > google.  I'll try to get a serial number of the mainboard.  Apparently the
JO> > HP-UX X server is based off of X11R5, so support has exists at one point or
JO> > another.  X11R6 seems to have support in: xc/programs/Xserver/hw/hp/
JO> >
JO> > Ideas?
JO>
JO> Brian,
JO>
JO> The HP 712 Workstation is over 10 years old.  So realize that platform
JO> is similar in performance to a P5-150 with a Matrox Millenium graphics
JO> chip.  I've got one here in my office if anyone wants to pay for shipping.
JO>
JO> I don't believe HP has released any specifications, but the Puffin Group
JO> was sponsered by HP to port Linux to HP-PA processors and may have
JO> gotten the graphics chip specs.  The name of the graphics chip is "Artist".
(Continue reading)

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ww | 13 Aug 2002 09:27
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Re: HP 700 series frambuffer support (GIO Graphics?)

On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 03:02:55AM -0400, Brian A. Seklecki wrote:
>
> X11R6 seems to have support in: xc/programs/Xserver/hw/hp/

i can confirm -- i have compiled and used the server from
R6.4 under hp-ux, and though the performance is not as good
as the server shipped by hp, it does work. as far as what it
wants in the way of kernel interface though, i'm not sure...

-w
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