From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailserv2.iuinc.com (IDENT:qmailr@mailserv2.iuinc.com [206.245.164.55]) by puffin.external.hp.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id UAA11181 for ; Fri, 18 Feb 2000 20:25:38 -0700 From: willy@thepuffingroup.com Received: (from willy@localhost) by gin.ext.thepuffingroup.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA01527 for parisc-linux@thepuffingroup.com; Fri, 18 Feb 2000 21:26:19 -0500 Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 21:26:19 -0500 To: parisc-linux@thepuffingroup.com Message-ID: <20000218212619.W9944@thepuffingroup.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: [parisc-linux] Weekly News [2000/02/18] List-ID: PA-RISC/Linux Weekly News - 18th February 2000 vol 2, issue 5 This Week * News & Announcements * This Week's CVS Activity * State of the Port Summary News & Announcements * Astro and Elroy docs released Thanks to many people at Hewlett Packard, we now have documentation on the Astro and Elroy devices found in some of the newer PA-RISC machines, such as the C3000 and J5000. These documents have been converted to PostScript and are linked from http://www.thepuffingroup.com/parisc/documentation.html * NFS working Martin Petersen posted an NFS-Root howto on the list. If you use NFS root, then you don't need to use an initial ramdisk. This exercises quite a lot of the kernel, including the TCP/IP layer and the ethernet driver. This Week's CVS Activity * The ELF toolchain has received some updates this week. Sammy contributed initial support for Linux/PARISC ELF32. Matthew contributed some build fixes for HP/UX and David H-D contributed Debian and Red Hat build support for x86. * John continued his low-level memory-management work by enabling the trapping of accidental user pointer dereferences. * Grant committed a bug-fix for card-mode DINOs. State of the Port Summary * Kernel based on 2.3.42 * Supported Hardware * SCSI, Lan and PS/2 on Lasi I/O controller * Dino PCI controller * Elroy PCI controller * Tulip ethernet * PCNet32 ethernet * Project Page http://www.thepuffingroup.com/parisc/ * Latest Workable Image ftp://puffin.external.hp.com/pub/parisc/binaries/kernels/Image-20000218 * Running PA-RISC/Linux "recipe" http://thepuffingroup.com/parisc/recipe.html The observant will also notice there have been a few updates to the website over the past couple of days. I've fixed some dangling links and typos. I've also added some previously missing weekly updates to the site. -- Matthew Wilcox Lead Developer, Linux/PARISC