[parisc-linux] Weekly News [2000/02/18]

[parisc-linux] Weekly News [2000/02/18]

[willy]

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 <willy@linuxcare.com> Lead Developer, Linux/PARISC

Re: [parisc-linux] Weekly News [2000/02/18]

[David Huggins-Daines]

willy@thepuffingroup.com writes:

>  * 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.

And Alpha - actually someone needs to build an i386 binary package for
Debian.  Note that the Debian build support is in CVS, so you can just
run 'debian/rules build && fakeroot debian/rules binary-arch' from
within a checked-out tree to get a binary package for your
architecture.

Sammy or some other toolchain hacker: can you look at the diff from
the SRPM?  I haven't checked it into CVS because it's a really bad
kludge, but it's needed to compile on Alpha.

As far as I can tell, BFD64 gets defined if either the target *or* the
host is 64-bit.  The assembler and linker code then expects that it is
being built for a 64-bit target, but the build system (rightly) obeys
the arch specification string and only builds elf32 targets in BFD.

-- 
David Huggins-Daines, Senior Linux Consultant, Linuxcare, Inc.
613.562.1239 tel
dhuggins@linuxcare.com, http://www.linuxcare.com/
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