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RevisionDateAuthorComments
 1.31  25-May-2025  tsutsui Update description about 362 and 382 framebuffers.
 1.30  04-Dec-2024  tsutsui Use https:// links for www.NetBSD.org port pages.
 1.29  04-Dec-2024  tsutsui Fix typo.
 1.28  01-May-2024  tsutsui Add 98542 and 98543 framebuffers to supported "Graphics Devices" section.

I hope someone will sync a list of supported devices in port wiki pages
with one in this installation notes.
 1.27  14-Jan-2024  tsutsui Add three button trackballs (M1309A) to a supported HP-HIL device list.

Asked by Jonathan Stone on port-hp300@, and tested by me:
https://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-hp300/2024/01/14/msg000238.html
 1.26  11-Jul-2021  tsutsui branches: 1.26.2;
Mention that emulated disks by HPDisk and HPDrive work.

Also add more HP-IB disk models per recent changes.
 1.25  11-Jul-2021  tsutsui HP9000/360 can have up to 16 MB RAM, not 48 MB.

Per Service Information Manual HP 9000 Series 300 Computers Models 360/370.
 1.24  23-Dec-2020  tsutsui Add A1659A CRX framebuffer to "Supported hardware" list.

Also remove SGC support from "Unsupported hardware" list.
 1.23  23-May-2020  tsutsui Now Xserver works on hp425e built-in EVRX framebuffer.
 1.22  01-May-2020  tsutsui Move HP332 to "Supported hardware" list, as reported by Chris Hanson.
 1.21  12-Apr-2020  tsutsui Fix typo.
 1.20  25-Mar-2017  tsutsui branches: 1.20.12; 1.20.14;
Sync description of "supported hardware" with reality.

- internal video on 362 and 382 works (no palette support)
- framebuffer 425e works (console text only)
- serial console for 425e on bootloader works
- Tigershark PersonalVRX was ported from OpenBSD (untested)
- Apollo Domain keyboard and mouse work
- ARCOFI audio on 425e works
- internal SCSI floppy is recognized as usual removable disk by MI SCSI
 1.19  14-Dec-2007  pavel branches: 1.19.2; 1.19.6; 1.19.54; 1.19.58;
Update URLs after website reorganization. patch by OKANO Takayoshi, from
PR 37070.
 1.18  25-Mar-2006  tsutsui branches: 1.18.4; 1.18.6; 1.18.10;
Update some description about SCSI devices to refrect MI SCSI support.
 1.17  15-Nov-2003  mbw - dcl not really supported
- Update to reflect that dca and apci are now handled by the com driver.
 1.16  26-Jul-2003  salo netbsd.org->NetBSD.org
 1.15  24-Jul-2002  mbw Update info on models 362 and 382
 1.14  29-Jun-2002  lukem clean up whitespace, formatting, copyrights
 1.13  03-May-2002  mbw branches: 1.13.2;
Model 310 has a 10 MHz CPU
minor typo
 1.12  03-May-2002  mbw move suggested partition info to prep
mention that tapes and printers go on slow HP-IB and disks on fast HP-IB
point to FAQ for help setting up a serial console
list unsupported hardware
 1.11  23-Apr-2002  gmcgarry Clarify that only miniroot installs are supported ATM.
 1.10  22-Apr-2002  mbw Flesh out details and make it look more like other platforms hardware
sections
 1.9  29-Oct-2000  lukem more work:
- use .Tn, .Bx, .Ul, .Key, .Sq, .Dq, .Li, .Dl, (etc) ... as appropriate
- be more consistent between various ports' install notes
- other cleanups
 1.8  10-Oct-2000  lukem major terraform (this is MUCH more than a rototill :-), including:
- update for 1.5 (still more MD stuff to check)
- use new macros in ../common/macros as appropriate
- introduce some CONSISTENCY between the various ports' install docs
- use various mdoc macros as appropriate, including .Li, .Pa, .Sy, and .Ic.
- migrate more stuff into ../common/*
- whitespace cleanup
- lots of other little things i'm sure...
 1.7  13-Jan-1999  ross branches: 1.7.10;
Markup for -mdoc and -mdoc2html.
 1.6  09-Jan-1998  perry RCS Id Police.
 1.5  23-Dec-1997  scottr Updated installation notes from Thorsten Frueauf.
 1.4  17-Nov-1997  carrel Create _S_VERS to hold output of `osversion.sh -s`
Replace all explicit version numbers with _VER or _SVER_S
for automagic expansion
 1.3  09-Oct-1996  jtc branches: 1.3.2;
merge in 1.2 branch
 1.2  17-Nov-1995  thorpej branches: 1.2.4;
Sync with netbsd-1-1; reflect current reality.
 1.1  26-Nov-1994  glass branches: 1.1.2;
hp300 port notes
 1.1.2.2  23-Nov-1995  thorpej Squish the last remaining typos, or, rather, squish the last ones that
will get squished.
 1.1.2.1  15-Nov-1995  thorpej Update the install notes (finally) to reflect current reality.
 1.2.4.1  02-Sep-1996  thorpej Trivial changes to update for NetBSD 1.2
 1.3.2.2  25-Dec-1997  perry pullup from trunk (scottr)
 1.3.2.1  17-Nov-1997  thorpej Sync w/ trunk.
 1.7.10.1  01-Nov-2000  tv Sync to HEAD as of 20001101 03:43 GMT [lukem]:
Complete rework of install notes for 1.5 from several authors.
 1.13.2.2  29-Jul-2002  lukem Pull up revision 1.15 (requested by mbw in ticket #541):
Update info on models 362 and 382
 1.13.2.1  02-Jul-2002  lukem manually sync distrib/notes/** to -current, excluding pmppc (which isn't in 1.6)
 1.18.10.1  09-Jan-2008  matt sync with HEAD
 1.18.6.1  06-Jan-2008  wrstuden Catch up to netbsd-4.0 release.
 1.18.4.1  15-Dec-2007  bouyer Pull up following revisions (requested by jnemeth in ticket #1017):
distrib/notes/common/contents patch
distrib/notes/common/list-setsizes.sh patch
distrib/notes/pmppc/hardware patch
distrib/notes/Makefile.inc 1.39, 1.40
distrib/notes/acorn32/prep.RISCOS 1.18
distrib/notes/alpha/install 1.32
distrib/notes/common/main 1.367, 1.368, 1.370 - 1.382
distrib/notes/common/netboot 1.31
distrib/notes/common/postinstall 1.64, 1.65
distrib/notes/common/sysinst 1.82, 1.83
distrib/notes/common/xfer 1.58 - 1.60
distrib/notes/evbppc/hardware 1.3
distrib/notes/ews4800mips/hardware 1.2
distrib/notes/hp300/hardware 1.19
distrib/notes/hp300/prep 1.21
distrib/notes/hp700/hardware 1.3
distrib/notes/i386/hardware 1.121
distrib/notes/i386/whatis 1.22
distrib/notes/mac68k/hardware 1.23
distrib/notes/mac68k/install 1.28
distrib/notes/macppc/hardware 1.44
distrib/notes/macppc/install 1.36
distrib/notes/macppc/prep 1.42
distrib/notes/macppc/prep.OPENFIRMWARE 1.9
distrib/notes/news68k/hardware 1.5
distrib/notes/newsmips/hardware 1.4
distrib/notes/next68k/hardware 1.8
distrib/notes/pmax/install 1.39
distrib/notes/sandpoint/hardware 1.6
distrib/notes/sparc/hardware 1.33
distrib/notes/sparc64/hardware 1.23
distrib/notes/sparc64/install 1.28
distrib/notes/vax/xfer 1.13
Sync release notes with reality
 1.19.58.1  21-Apr-2017  bouyer Sync with HEAD
 1.19.54.1  26-Apr-2017  pgoyette Sync with HEAD
 1.19.6.1  05-Oct-2008  mjf Sync with HEAD.
 1.19.2.2  14-Dec-2007  pavel Update URLs after website reorganization. patch by OKANO Takayoshi, from
PR 37070.
 1.19.2.1  14-Dec-2007  pavel file hardware was added on branch mjf-devfs on 2007-12-14 21:15:59 +0000
 1.20.14.2  15-Aug-2021  martin Pull up following revision(s) (requested by tsutsui in ticket #1334):

distrib/notes/hp300/hardware: revision 1.25
distrib/notes/hp300/hardware: revision 1.26

HP9000/360 can have up to 16 MB RAM, not 48 MB.

Per Service Information Manual HP 9000 Series 300 Computers Models 360/370.


Mention that emulated disks by HPDisk and HPDrive work.
Also add more HP-IB disk models per recent changes.
 1.20.14.1  28-Dec-2020  martin Pull up following revision(s) (requested by tsutsui in ticket #1163):

distrib/notes/hp300/hardware: revision 1.21
distrib/notes/hp300/hardware: revision 1.22
distrib/notes/hp300/hardware: revision 1.23
distrib/notes/hp300/hardware: revision 1.24

Fix typo.

Move HP332 to "Supported hardware" list, as reported by Chris Hanson.

Now Xserver works on hp425e built-in EVRX framebuffer.

Add A1659A CRX framebuffer to "Supported hardware" list.

Also remove SGC support from "Unsupported hardware" list.
 1.20.12.1  21-Apr-2020  martin Sync with HEAD
 1.26.2.2  16-May-2024  martin Pull up following revision(s) (requested by tsutsui in ticket #690):

sys/arch/hp300/dev/topcat.c: revision 1.7
sys/arch/hp300/dev/topcat.c: revision 1.8
sys/arch/hp300/dev/topcat.c: revision 1.9
sys/arch/hp300/dev/diofb.c: revision 1.8
sys/arch/hp300/dev/diofb.c: revision 1.9
sys/arch/hp300/dev/diofb.c: revision 1.10
sys/arch/hp300/dev/topcat.c: revision 1.10
sys/arch/hp300/dev/topcat.c: revision 1.11
sys/arch/hp300/dev/topcat.c: revision 1.12
sys/arch/hp300/dev/topcatreg.h: revision 1.5
distrib/notes/hp300/hardware: revision 1.28
sys/arch/hp300/dev/diofbvar.h: revision 1.5
share/man/man4/man4.hp300/topcat.4: revision 1.8

Increase DELAY() for waitbusy macroes as pre-wscons and 4.4BSD did.

It looks necessary for sane palette ops at least on HP98543 topcat
on 68030 HP 9000/360.

Move a check of topcat(4) specific fb width quirks to topcat.c.

We need to check fb->planes but it's propbed in topcat.c after
common diofb_fbinquire() is called.

Also add a comment that it looks these 1 bpp and 4 bpp boards have
VRAM with sparse address layout and we have to handle
512 pixels per line with 1024 bytes per line.

Fix MD allocattr to return proper attributes what MI rasops(9) expects.
Use proper planemask per a vaild number of planes.

Check tc_waitbusy() before writing palette registers in topcat_setcolor().
This seems to make palette operations more stable on my HP360 with HP98543.

Add DELAY(9) to make palette register settings stable on 98543 in HP360.
Note 98547 (6 bpp variant) on HP370 (68030 33MHz) doesn't need these
DELAYs so maybe only some old variants (98543 and 98545?) on 020/030
have such restriction (actually only one nop seems enough.)

Fix topcat(4) problems on some models that cause garbages on screen.
- Make sure that windowmove (hardware BITBLT) ops complete by checking
tc_busywait() before calling putchar functions by MI rasops(9).
It looks CPU accesses against VRAM during windowmove (copy, erase,
and cursor) ops causes unexpected garbages at least on 98543 on HP360,
98547 on HP370, and also on 98543 on 040 HP380 (but not on 98549).
- Handle 'sparse VRAM' on 98543 (and probably 98542) properly:
- Prepare and use own topcat_putchar1_4() function for sparse VRAM.
- Pass proper 'VRAM width' rather than actuall font width to all
windowmove (copycols, erasecols, copyrows, eraserows, and do_cursor)
operation functions.
Now all topcat(4) consoles on 98543 on HP360/HP380 and 98547 on HP370
work fine, and no visible regression on 98549 on HP380 and 98544 on HP360.

Note that 98542 and 98543 variants are also supported by topcat(4).

Add 98542 and 98543 framebuffers to supported "Graphics Devices" section.
I hope someone will sync a list of supported devices in port wiki pages
with one in this installation notes.

Add comments about quirks of 98542/98543 framebuffers with 1024x400 pixels.
 1.26.2.1  14-Jan-2024  martin Pull up following revision(s) (requested by tsutsui in ticket #551):

distrib/notes/hp300/hardware: revision 1.27

Add three button trackballs (M1309A) to a supported HP-HIL device list.
Asked by Jonathan Stone on port-hp300@, and tested by me:
https://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-hp300/2024/01/14/msg000238.html

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