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27 April 2006

 

Even I worked on PA-RISC too

Well, today I worked on PA-RISC processor based system, like one of my friend Gautam who worked on it @ his university.

Well, I was looking for some information on PA-RISC processors. I was surprised to know that most of its processors (forgot to mention, it is actually a family of processors) don't have L2 caches, recent ones (so big, 64 MiB L2 cache of PA-RISC vs. my 2 MiB L2 Cache of Pentium 4 ;-) ), and 2 processors in mid generation have L2 caches. Anyways, you can read more about PA-RISC processors, @.....

Now, comes to the GNU/Linux play with the box. The PA-RISC box runs Debian GNU/Linux (Linux pa64 2.6.15-1-parisc64 #2 Mon Mar 6 17:39:49 GMT 2006 parisc64 GNU/Linux). A session with box is displayed below:

21287@pa64:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
cpu family      : PA-RISC 2.0
cpu             : PA8600 (PCX-W+)
cpu MHz         : 400.000000
model           : 9000/785/B2000
model name      : Kazoo W+
hversion        : 0x00005d00
sversion        : 0x00000481
I-cache         : 512 KB
D-cache         : 1024 KB (WB, 0-way associative)
ITLB entries    : 160
DTLB entries    : 160 - shared with ITLB
bogomips        : 796.67
software id     : 2003331839

21287@pa64:~$ cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal:      1793744 kB
MemFree:         33096 kB
Buffers:         67936 kB
Cached:         917148 kB
SwapCached:          0 kB
Active:         784156 kB
Inactive:       715640 kB
HighTotal:           0 kB
HighFree:            0 kB
LowTotal:      1793744 kB
LowFree:         33096 kB
SwapTotal:      524280 kB
SwapFree:       524192 kB
Dirty:             352 kB
Writeback:           0 kB
Mapped:         586212 kB
Slab:           226992 kB
CommitLimit:   1421152 kB
Committed_AS:   839260 kB
PageTables:      10520 kB
VmallocTotal:   245728 kB
VmallocUsed:      3764 kB
VmallocChunk:   241600 kB
21287@pa64:~$ mount
/dev/sda5 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
tmpfs on /dev type tmpfs (rw,size=10M,mode=0755)
/dev/sda1 on /mnt/sda1 type ext3 (rw)
21287@pa64:~$ /sbin/ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:10:83:FF:6D:23
          inet addr:192.168.1.7  Bcast:255.255.255.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::210:83ff:feff:6d23/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:54875344 errors:1 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:93060665 errors:415 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:243
          collisions:5825773 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:15922891349 (14.8 GiB)  TX bytes:41259342948 (38.4 GiB)
          Interrupt:65 Base address:0xf00

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:1281187 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1281187 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:118301798 (112.8 MiB)  TX bytes:118301798 (112.8 MiB)

21287@pa64:~$ ping -b 192.168.1.255
WARNING: pinging broadcast address
PING 192.168.1.255 (192.168.1.255) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 192.168.1.5: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=0.624 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.4: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=1.11 ms (DUP!)
64 bytes from 192.168.1.3: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=2.04 ms (DUP!)
64 bytes from 192.168.1.6: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=3.27 ms (DUP!)
64 bytes from 192.168.1.5: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=0.482 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.4: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.645 ms (DUP!)
64 bytes from 192.168.1.3: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=0.880 ms (DUP!)
64 bytes from 192.168.1.6: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=1.06 ms (DUP!)

--- 192.168.1.255 ping statistics ---
2 packets transmitted, 2 received, +6 duplicates, 0% packet loss, time 1000ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.482/1.266/3.271/0.884 ms
21287@pa64:~$ lspci
0000:00:0c.0 Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21142/43 (rev 41)
0000:00:0d.0 Multimedia audio controller: Analog Devices AD1889 sound chip
0000:00:0e.0 IDE interface: National Semiconductor Corporation 87415/87560 IDE (rev 03)
0000:00:0e.1 Bridge: National Semiconductor Corporation 87560 Legacy I/O (rev 01)
0000:00:0e.2 USB Controller: National Semiconductor Corporation USB Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:0f.0 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 53c895a (rev 01)
0000:01:00.0 3D controller: Hewlett-Packard Company Visualize FXe (rev 03)
21287@pa64:~$ who
the1     pts/0        Apr 19 13:12 (192.168.1.5)
the1     pts/11       Apr 17 19:12 (192.168.1.11)
21233    pts/53       Apr 26 13:51 (dslb-082-083-234-190.pools.arcor-ip.net)
the1     pts/36       Apr 17 19:13 (192.168.1.11:0.0)
1444     pts/72       Apr 26 11:02 (80-219-149-147.dclient.hispeed.ch)
the1     pts/80       Apr 26 14:30 (adsl-68-23-47-109.dsl.chcgil.ameritech.net)
21287    pts/2        Apr 26 15:01 (61.246.76.12)
21225    pts/77       Apr 20 02:07 (s010600045a2d8536:S.0)
21225    pts/69       Apr 20 02:19 (s010600045a2d8536:S.1)
21287@pa64:~$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 05a4:9760 Ortek Technology, Inc.
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

And hey, I even ran a X application (xedit) also, not on my DISPLAY but some other user's ;-) . I even tried to sudo, but I'm not in /etc/sudoers ;-) . I even have a webpage of mine hosted there @ http://unixclan.no-ip.org/~21287/. And I even worked on Compaq Alpha (when ?? guess...).

Although, I dream to have one day my own PA-RISC box, my own Alpha box, my own IA-64 box, my own MIPS box, my own PowerPC box, my own PowerPC (64bit) box, my own Sparc box, any other processor box you can think of, and my own processor box. BTW, I'm not interested in processors, but in their boxes ;-) .

This post is dedicated to Gautam (the person who always inspire me).

Good Morning


Comments:
Oh boy!
64 megs L2 cache?
Man! This makes my laptop look tiny!
 
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