discuss: An HP doc for TLDP
Subject:
RE: An HP doc for TLDP
From:
"Greg Porter" ####@####.####
Date:
23 Jun 2004 00:46:29 -0000
Message-Id: <000a01c458bb$88965a20$df6ddacf@athlon>
I see your point, so let me tell you a little more about why I wrote it.
I basically offered it up as a companion to the LDP document
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/HP-HOWTO/index.html
I 'inherited' some old cranky HP servers, and I wanted to put linux on
them. I found that the HP firmware was proprietary, and not well
documented. An especially daunting problem was the process by which you
update the firmware. This is important, because later revisions of
firmware recognize newer peripherals, or allow running a 64 bit OS. As
I wandered around on the web, I saw that there were quite a few people
asking "How to?" but few places that said "Like this".
The next rev of the document will have a chapter on updating the
firmware using freely available tools and OSes.
I certainly can make changes to the doc to remove HP-UX references. I
tried in this version to be linux friendly, but not linux specific.
Perhaps that was a mistake.
Thanks for you feedback and regards,
Greg
-----Original Message-----
From: Charles Curley ####@####.####
Sent: Monday, June 21, 2004 8:35 AM
To: Greg Porter
Cc: ####@####.####
Subject: Re: An HP doc for TLDP
On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 07:44:05AM -0700, Greg Porter wrote:
> Hi, I noticed that linux documentation regarding Hewlett Packard unix
> server hardware (hardware based on the proprietary HP CPU Precision
> Architecture-RISC or PA-RISC) is lacking. I recently taught myself
> DocBook, and have started documenting some specifics of HP hardware.
>
>
>
> For example, I recently documented HP server firmware with DocBook,
> please see <http://www.porterdavis.org/computing/hp_boot/>
> http://www.porterdavis.org/computing/hp_boot/ for an example. The xml
> is there if you'd like to see it, at
> <http://www.porterdavis.org/computing/hp_boot/hp_boot_1.01.xml>
> http://www.porterdavis.org/computing/hp_boot/hp_boot_1.01.xml
>
>
>
> With minimal changes, I believe that this document would be a valuable
> addition to TLDP. I haven't been using DocBook for long and I can use
> all the help I can get, so please feel free to make comments and/or
> corrections.
I think this is useful documentation, but I'm not sure what it has to
do with Linux. Maybe the PARISC Linux folks
(http://www.parisc-linux.org/) or the HP-UX users group would find it
more acceptable.
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