From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailserv2.iuinc.com (qmailr@mailserv2.iuinc.com [206.245.164.55]) by puffin.external.hp.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id PAA29367 for ; Fri, 3 Dec 1999 15:21:34 -0700 Received: from thepuffingroup.com (IDENT:adevries@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by feather.thepuffingroup.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA11676 for ; Fri, 3 Dec 1999 17:26:24 -0500 Sender: adevries@thepuffingroup.com Message-ID: <38484390.32D26BFE@thepuffingroup.com> Date: Fri, 03 Dec 1999 17:26:24 -0500 From: Alex deVries MIME-Version: 1.0 To: parisc-linux@thepuffingroup.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: [parisc-linux] PA-RISC/Linux Weekly News - December 3, 1999 List-ID: ============================================ PA-RISC/Linux Weekly News - December 3, 1999 ============================================ http://www.thepuffingroup.com/parisc/ vol 1, iss 3 This Week: News & Announcements This Week's CVS Activity State of the Port Summary ==================== News & Announcements ==================== ---------------------------- The Quest for PA 2.0 Support ---------------------------- After months of valiant programming efforts from developers around the globe, Philip Rumpf has started the implementation of a virtual memorty management system that should work on PA2.0 processors. This should enable development of PA2.0 IO infrastructure from noble developers such as Sir Grant G Grundler and The Imperial Philip Schwan. ----------- New Puffin! ----------- Mr. Chris Beard and Mrs. Alex deVries are pleased to announce the hatching of a new puffling: Matthew Richard Wilcox, weighing in at 85kg. Mother and child are doing well, in spite of the unusual size of the newly hatched puffball. Matthew, once weaned, will be working primarily on PA-RISC/Linux development efforts, in the Ottawa Ontario puffin burrow (aka: Burrow #1). ----------------------- Bremen mini-Puffin-Fest ----------------------- A miniature Puffin-Fest broke out at the Bremen LinuxTag, featuring such notable hackers as Alan Cox, Matthew Wilcox, Philipp Rumpf, Martin Petersen, and Martin Schulze. A 715/33 was transferred to Philipp, and some surreptitious hacking occurred behind one of the booths on the show floor. ------------------------- PA-RISC Hardware Database ------------------------- The PA-RISC database is being filled up with machine descriptions. However, more descriptions are needed. Please go to http://www.thepuffingroup.com/parisc/hw.html and add your machines to the database. There are more improvements to the database that will be made soon. The goal of the PA-RISC database is to catalogue the different possible machine configurations and the hardware that they contain. This information will be used to determine if a specific machine is supported with Linux and what device drivers are needed. ======================== This Week's CVS Activity ======================== Paul Bame has fixed some problems with memcpy in real mode. Philipp Rumpf has replaced the block TLB handler with a basic TLB insert handler. Philipp has also rearranged some of the real mode handling. ========================= State of the Port Summary ========================= Kernel: based on 2.2.13 Supported Machines: most of the A180c, parts of 712 Gecko and 715 workstations Supported Hardware: SCSI, Lan and PS/2 on Lasi I/O controller, Dino PCI Tulip ethernet Project Page: http://www.thepuffingroup.com/parisc/ Latest Workable Image: ftp://puffin.external.hp.com/pub/parisc/linux-2.2.13.gz Running PA-RISC/Linux HOWTO: http://thepuffingroup.com/parisc/recipe.html -- Alex deVries Vice President of Engineering The Puffin Group