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Update of /cvsroot/linux-vax/www/htdocs In directory usw-pr-cvs1:/tmp/cvs-serv27950 Modified Files: index.html Added Files: header.html indexframe.html linkframe.html links.html news.html newsframe.html skeleton.html skelframe.html Log Message: Attempt to update the web server --- NEW FILE --- <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Mozilla/4.10 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.36 i586) [Netscape]"> <META NAME="Author" CONTENT="atp"> <TITLE>Linux/VAX Porting Project</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY TEXT="#000000" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" LINK="#009900" VLINK="#990032" ALINK="#6F7463" FONT FACE="Helvetica"> <H1> <IMG SRC="images/lvax2.gif" NOSAVE HEIGHT=61 WIDTH=679></H1> <FONT FACE="Arial,Helvetica"><FONT SIZE=+2> <A HREF="index.html" target="_top">Home</A> | <A HREF="newfaq/newfaq.html" target="_top">FAQ</A> | <A HREF="news.html" target="_top">News</A> | <A HREF="docs/index.html" target="_top">Documentation</A> | <A HREF="links.html" target="_top">Links</A> | <A HREF="download/index.html" target="_top">Downloads</A> </FONT></FONT> <HR width=690 align=left> --- NEW FILE --- <html> <BODY TEXT="#000000" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" LINK="#009900" VLINK="#990032" ALINK="#6F7463" FONT FACE="Helvetica" > <table WIDTH=680><tr><td> <FONT FACE="Helvetica, Arial"><FONT SIZE=+2> A port of Linux to the VAX Architecture.</FONT> <p> <FONT SIZE=+1>Welcome to the Linux/VAX porting project. This is a port of the Linux Kernel to the Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) (now owned by Compaq/Hewlett Packard) VAX and MicroVAX mini computer systems. VAX (Virtual Address eXtension) computers were designed and built from the mid-1970s through to retirement of the line in 1999/2000. <p> Here you will find all you need to get the Linux Kernel up and running on a VAX computer. We don't support many of the models yet, and it is very early days - we don't (at the time of writing) have dynamic libraries yet! But if you have one of the systems listed in the FAQ you can run a limited version of Linux on it. See the Documentation link for details on the installation process. However, its very rough at the moment, and you need to be very comfortable with the command line and root prompt to be successful. <p> If you don't like the idea of that, then we suggest that you visit our friends over at the NetBSD project at <A HREF="http://www.netbsd.org">http://www.netbsd.org/</A> who make a free UNIX that runs on a wide variety of VAX hardware. NetBSD has a much easier installation, not to mention fewer bugs (at the moment...). <p> Still here?<p> You might like to join the Mailing list if you are serious about this...<p> The mailing list is somewhat imaginatively titled <TT>linux-vax</TT>. It changed its home a few years ago, and If you were a member of the old list at resserv, you will need to resubscribe to the new list, as the list of members was not saved. Its not exactly high volume :-).<p> To subscribe, send an email to: <P>The <FONT FACE="Courier New,Courier" SIZE=-1>majordomo</FONT> account at <FONT FACE="Courier New,Courier" SIZE=-1>solar.physics.montana.edu</FONT> <P><FONT FACE="Arial,Helvetica">with</FONT> <P><FONT FACE="Arial,Helvetica">"</FONT><FONT FACE="Courier New,Courier"><FONT SIZE=-1>subscribe linux-vax</FONT></FONT><FONT FACE="Arial,Helvetica">" in the body (without the quotes of course)</FONT> <P> There is a hypermail mailing list <A HREF="http://solar.physics.montana.edu/hypermail/linux-vax/">archive</A> as well if you just want to lurk. </td></tr></table> <HR width=690 align=left> <table><tr><td width="300" valign="top"><font FACE="Helvetica, Arial" size=+1> This project would like to acknowledge the support of the following companies or organisations:</font></td> <td> <a href="http://www.pergamentum.com/"><img src="http://www.pergamentum.com/images/logo_new.gif" border="0" align="top" width="107" height="60" border="0"> </a> <A href="http://sourceforge.net"> <IMG src="http://sourceforge.net/sflogo.php?group_id=2626&type=1" width="107" height="60" border="0" align="top"></A> <IMG src="images/nworkhouse.jpg" width="107" height="60" border="0" align="top"> </td></tr></table> <hr width=690 align=left> <SCRIPT> <!-- document.write("<font size=-1>Last modified "+document.lastModified+"</font>"); // --> </SCRIPT> </body> </html> --- NEW FILE --- <html> <BODY TEXT="#000000" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" LINK="#009900" VLINK="#990032" ALINK="#6F7463" FONT FACE="Helvetica"> <h1>Useful links</h1> <h2>Other Linux/VAX pages</h2> <ul> <li>Andys <a href="http://www.pergamentum.com/~atp/vax">linux vax page</a> <li>Kenns <a href="http://www.bluetree.ie/~kenn/linux-vax/">linux vax pages</a> <li>Daves <a href="http://www.skynet.ie/~airlied/vax">pages</a> </ul> <p> <h2>Other</h2> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.netbsd.org">NetBSD project</a> <li><a href="http://www.openvms.compaq.com">Compaq OpenVMS</a> <li><a href="http://www.vaxarchive.org">VAX Archive</a> <li><a href="http://www.compaq.com/alphaserver/vax">Compaq VAX systems</a> </ul> <SCRIPT> <!-- document.write("<font size=-1>Last modified "+document.lastModified+"</font>"); // --> </SCRIPT> </body> </html> --- NEW FILE --- <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Mozilla/4.10 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.36 i586) [Netscape]"> <META NAME="Author" CONTENT="atp"> <TITLE>Linux/VAX Porting Project</TITLE> </HEAD> <frameset rows="130,*" border=0> <frame src="header.html" name=header> <frame src="linkframe.html" name=body > </frameset> </HTML> --- NEW FILE --- <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Mozilla/4.10 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.36 i586) [Netscape]"> <META NAME="Author" CONTENT="atp"> <TITLE>Linux/VAX Porting Project</TITLE> </HEAD> <frameset rows="130,*" border=0> <frame src="header.html" name=header> <frame src="newsframe.html" name=body> <SCRIPT> <!-- document.write("<font size=-1>Last modified "+document.lastModified+"</font>"); // --> </SCRIPT> </frameset> </HTML> --- NEW FILE --- <BODY TEXT="#000000" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" LINK="#009900" VLINK="#990032" ALINK="#6F7463" FONT FACE="Helvetica"> <TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 COLS=1 WIDTH="690" BGCOLOR="#990033" NOSAVE > <TR NOSAVE> <TD NOSAVE><B><FONT FACE="Arial,Helvetica"><FONT COLOR="#FFFFFF"><FONT SIZE=+2>News</FONT></FONT></FONT></B> <TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 COLS=1 WIDTH="100%" HEIGHT="100%" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" NOSAVE > <TR NOSAVE> <TD NOSAVE> <TABLE WIDTH="100%" NOSAVE > <TR NOSAVE> <TD WIDTH="15%" NOSAVE></TD> <TD VALIGN=TOP NOSAVE></TD> </TR> <!-- News entry boundary --> <TR VALIGN=TOP NOSAVE> <TD>20 Sep 2001</TD> <TD NOSAVE> Updated Website with more useful information. 3100/30,38,76's working - mostly. There is a first cut bootloader for the above, called "Andy's Scsi Boot loader", or asbl. <P> </td> <!-- News entry boundary --> <TR VALIGN=TOP NOSAVE> <TD>24 Jun 2001</TD> <TD NOSAVE> Mopd, uLibc and busybox now in CVS. <P> </td> <!-- News entry boundary --> <TR VALIGN=TOP NOSAVE> <TD>16 JUNE 2001</TD> <TD NOSAVE> <B>Kernel</B><BR> Kernel boots to shell prompt and forks properly... more details and bootlog in <A HREF="http://solar.physics.montana.edu/hypermail/linux-vax/1056.html"> this message</A> <P> <P> </td> <!-- News entry boundary --> <TR VALIGN=TOP NOSAVE> <TD>11 JUNE 2001</TD> <TD NOSAVE> <B>Kernel</B><BR> Got a shell prompt (busybox + uClibc static) !!!!! <A HREF="http://solar.physics.montana.edu/hypermail/linux-vax/1033.html"> this message</A> has more info...<P> Complete bootlog and more information will be available soon. <P> </td> </TR> <!-- News entry boundary --> <TR VALIGN=TOP NOSAVE> <TD>21 FEB 2001</TD> <TD NOSAVE> <B>Kernel</B><BR> Mounted a root filesystem for the first time tonight! See <A HREF="http://solar.physics.montana.edu/hypermail/linux-vax/0788.html"> this message</A> for the proof... <P> This build is tagged as kh-20010221. </td> </TR> <!-- News entry boundary --> <TR VALIGN=TOP NOSAVE> <TD>20 FEB 2001</TD> <TD NOSAVE> <B>Kernel</B><BR> Things are going pretty well right now. We're now working off the official 2.4.0 kernel. Next I'll merge in 2.4.1. We intend to track the 2.4.x series at least until 2.5 starts. Don't know which way we'll go at that point yet... <P> Andy's pagelet layer is in place, making the main kernel think we really have 4K pages, when we really only have 512-byte pages. (Sssh! Don't tell it...). Good work Andy! <P> Richard Banks has started trying it out on a MicroVAX 3100 Model 85 (KA55 CPU) and, well, it's just not working... My best guess is that the PCB needs to be set up correctly before turning on virtual memory. I'll get to that real soon now, Richard. Honestly... <P> Anyway, I've tagged a build as kh-20010220 in CVS. You can see the default configuration (i.e. rm .config && make oldconfig) booting on a <A HREF="bootlogs/bootlog-kenn-vs3100m76-20010220.txt"> VAXstation 3100 Model 76</A> and a <A HREF="bootlogs/bootlog-kenn-vs4000m60-20010220.txt"> VAXstation 4000 Model 60</A>. Thanks for the 4000/60, Andy! (Incidentally, those BOOTP transmission attempts in the VS3100 bootlog are not actually putting packets on the wire.) <P> <B>Toolchain</B><BR> You will need the 20001231 toolchain to build this kernel. You can get it from CVS or grab snapshots from <A HREF="ftp://linux-vax.sourceforge.net/pub/linux-vax/tools/Binaries/"> the FTP site</A>. </td> </TR> <!-- News entry boundary --> <TR VALIGN=TOP NOSAVE> <TD>31 DEC 2000</TD> <TD NOSAVE> <B>Kernel</B><BR> Some reasonable progress recently. Check out this <A HREF="bootlogs/bootlog-kenn-vs3100-20001231.txt">boot sequence</A> on my VS3100m76. The LANCE ethernet chip, one of the NCR5380 SCSI controllers, the internal SCSI disk and it's partitions are detected. The usual bunch of initial kernel threads are created and you can see the scheduler switching between them while it waits for an interrupt from the disk. <P> I've tagged this build as kh-20001231. <P> Unfortunately, getting further is going to be a bit more difficult. I'm starting to run into problems due to our small PAGE_SIZE, that won't be easy to get around. Following discussions with Andy, I'm going to start working on 2.4 which should make things easier for us. <P> <B>Toolchain</B><BR> I've CVS tagged a toolchain build as tools-linuxvax-20001231. Real soon now, I'll be checking in a kernel change that will require this new toolchain. So now might be a good time to cvs update and rebuild. <P> You <EM>don't</EM> need this latest toolchain to build kh-20001231. The 20000808 release should work fine. <P> Oh yeah... Happy new year! - KPH </td> </TR> <!-- News entry boundary --> <TR VALIGN=TOP NOSAVE> <TD>11 AUG 2000</TD> <TD NOSAVE> <B>Toolchain</B><BR> Snapshots of the gcc-2.95.2/binutils 2.10 toolchain released, and available on the FTP site. Source and Binary versions for Linux/i386 are provided, with documentation to follow (honest). (atp) </td> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP NOSAVE> <TD>07 AUG 2000</TD> <TD NOSAVE> <B>Toolchain</B><BR> Andy continues to work on the toolchain. Migration to gcc-2.95.2 seems to be complete (at least it makes bootable kernels for me - Kenn). He continues to work through the bugs. Hopefully we'll do a binary snapshot of the toolchain soon, for those of you who don't want to compile up your own tools.<BR> <B>Kernel</B><BR> Dave Airlie's LANCE ethernet driver for the VS3100-series machines is starting to take shape. Well, it generates lots of output on the console and then prints the ethernet address!<BR> <B>Docs</B><BR> Dave's also started on a proper <A HREF="linux-vax/newfaq/linux_vax.html"> FAQ</A> generated from <A HREF="linux-vax/newfaq/linux_vax.sgml">these SGML sources</A>. </td> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP NOSAVE> <TD>23 JUL 2000</TD> <TD NOSAVE> <B>Toolchain</B><BR> A newer binutils (version 2.10) has been checked into CVS. It seems to work fine so far. Details in Andy's <A HREF="http://solar.physics.montana.edu/hypermail/linux-vax/0381.html"> mail message</A>. <BR> <B>Kernel</B><BR> The interrupt and exception handling framework is complete. I hope... <BR> Interrupt and exception handlers are all registered at run-time now. It looks like autoprobing interrupt vectors will be possible too. </td> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP NOSAVE> <TD>14 JUL 2000</TD> <TD NOSAVE> <B>Website</B><BR> The website is now updated via CVS. The pages are pulled from CVS hourly.<BR> Out of date <A HREF="linux-vax/docs.html">documentation</A> has been removed and replaced with a link to current docs.<BR> <B>Kernel</B><BR> We're getting further slowly. <A HREF="bootlogs/bootlog-kenn-vs3100-20000714.txt">Here</A> is Kenn's VAXstation 3100 booting the latest kernel. The framework for handling interrupts is taking shape... </td> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP NOSAVE> <TD>23 FEB 2000</TD> <TD NOSAVE>Web site has moved to <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/linux-vax">SourceForge</a> Expect some broken links and general randomness as we iron out bugs. </td> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP NOSAVE> <TD>18 FEB 2000</TD> <TD NOSAVE>This project is moving to sourceforge, in order to speed up access to the software and to allow people aside from me to manage the web site. <BR>New release this weekend. </TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP NOSAVE> <TD>01 FEB 99</TD> <TD>New snapshots at the http link. Old packages are still available under the "old" directory. A mopd, this time including the loop.c fix, has been put up as well. Whilst I'm away patches and new releases can be found on Kenn's site at <A HREF="http://www.bluetree.ie/~kenn/linux-vax/">www.bluetree.ie</A></TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP NOSAVE> <TD>24 OCT 99</TD> <TD> <OL> <LI> All the vaxes have arrived. The only problem now is that as a result of moving jobs and house, they are all in storage.</LI> <LI> The mailing list has moved. The new details are below.</LI> <LI> If you were on the old linux-vax list, you will have to re-subscribe, as the list of members was not saved.</LI> <LI> I am about to depart to a desert island (with no internet access) for several months. I'll try to update documentation and the web site before I go.</LI> <LI> Simplified web pages a bit. Amazing how being on a DECstation running NetBSD with a 33.6 dialup instead of a T1 can lead to a lack of patience with useless graphics.</LI> </OL> </TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP NOSAVE> <TD NOSAVE>25 JUL 99</TD> <TD>New snapshots for things at the download link. <BR>Linux C code now compiles. Pretty much all of arch-dependent stuff to do <BR>(or redo) still. I'm acquiring the rest of the VAX hardware I need tomorrow. <BR>Still dont know where to store it ...</TD> </TR> </TABLE> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> </TD> </TR> </table> <SCRIPT> <!-- document.write("<font size=-1>Last modified "+document.lastModified+"</font>"); // --> </SCRIPT> </BODY> --- NEW FILE --- <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Mozilla/4.10 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.36 i586) [Netscape]"> <META NAME="Author" CONTENT="atp"> <TITLE>Linux/VAX Porting Project</TITLE> </HEAD> <frameset rows="130,*" border=0> <frame src="header.html" name=header> <frame src="skelframe.html" name=body > </frameset> </HTML> --- NEW FILE --- <html> <BODY TEXT="#000000" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" LINK="#009900" VLINK="#990032" ALINK="#6F7463" FONT FACE="Helvetica"> put your html here <SCRIPT> <!-- document.write("<font size=-1>Last modified "+document.lastModified+"</font>"); // --> </SCRIPT> </body> </html> Index: index.html =================================================================== RCS file: /cvsroot/linux-vax/www/htdocs/index.html,v retrieving revision 1.16 retrieving revision 1.17 diff -u -r1.16 -r1.17 --- index.html 2001/06/24 19:55:58 1.16 +++ index.html 2001/09/19 15:53:39 1.17 @@ -6,381 +6,8 @@ <META NAME="Author" CONTENT="atp"> <TITLE>Linux/VAX Porting Project</TITLE> </HEAD> -<BODY TEXT="#000000" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" LINK="#009900" VLINK="#990032" ALINK="#6F7463" FONT FACE="Helvetica"> - -<H1> -<IMG SRC="images/lvax2.gif" NOSAVE HEIGHT=61 WIDTH=679></H1> -<FONT FACE="Arial,Helvetica"><FONT SIZE=+2><A HREF="/linux-vax/">Home</A> -| <A HREF="linux-vax/newfaq/linux_vax.html">FAQ</A> | -<A HREF="linux-vax/screenshots.html">Screenshots</A> -| -<A HREF="linux-vax/status.html">Status</A> -| -<A HREF="linux-vax/docs.html">Documentation</A></FONT></FONT> -<P> -<HR width=690 align=left> - -<P><FONT FACE="Helvetica, Arial"><FONT SIZE=+2> A port of Linux to -the VAX Architecture.</FONT></FONT> -<P><FONT FACE="Arial,Helvetica">If you want to run a free unix on your -VAX right now may I suggest you check out</FONT> -<BR><FONT FACE="Arial,Helvetica">The Netbsd Project. at <A HREF="http://www.netbsd.org">http://www.netbsd.org/</A></FONT> -<P><FONT FACE="Arial,Helvetica">Still here? ok, Get your compiler -out....</FONT> -<TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 COLS=1 WIDTH="550" BGCOLOR="#990033" NOSAVE > -<TR NOSAVE> -<TD NOSAVE><B><FONT FACE="Arial,Helvetica"><FONT COLOR="#FFFFFF"><FONT SIZE=+1>News</FONT></FONT></FONT></B> -<TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 COLS=1 WIDTH="100%" HEIGHT="100%" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" NOSAVE > -<TR NOSAVE> -<TD NOSAVE> -<TABLE WIDTH="100%" NOSAVE > -<TR NOSAVE> -<TD WIDTH="15%" NOSAVE></TD> - -<TD VALIGN=TOP NOSAVE></TD> -</TR> - -<!-- News entry boundary --> - -<TR VALIGN=TOP NOSAVE> -<TD>24 Jun 2001</TD> - -<TD NOSAVE> -Mopd, uLibc and busybox now in CVS. -<P> -</td> -<!-- News entry boundary --> - -<TR VALIGN=TOP NOSAVE> -<TD>16 JUNE 2001</TD> - -<TD NOSAVE> -<B>Kernel</B><BR> -Kernel boots to shell prompt and forks properly... more details and bootlog -in <A HREF="http://solar.physics.montana.edu/hypermail/linux-vax/1056.html"> -this message</A> <P> -<P> -</td> -<!-- News entry boundary --> - -<TR VALIGN=TOP NOSAVE> -<TD>11 JUNE 2001</TD> - -<TD NOSAVE> -<B>Kernel</B><BR> -Got a shell prompt (busybox + uClibc static) !!!!! -<A HREF="http://solar.physics.montana.edu/hypermail/linux-vax/1033.html"> -this message</A> has more info...<P> -Complete bootlog and more information will be available soon. -<P> -</td> -</TR> - -<!-- News entry boundary --> - -<TR VALIGN=TOP NOSAVE> -<TD>21 FEB 2001</TD> - -<TD NOSAVE> -<B>Kernel</B><BR> -Mounted a root filesystem for the first time tonight! See -<A HREF="http://solar.physics.montana.edu/hypermail/linux-vax/0788.html"> -this message</A> for the proof... -<P> -This build is tagged as kh-20010221. -</td> -</TR> - -<!-- News entry boundary --> - -<TR VALIGN=TOP NOSAVE> -<TD>20 FEB 2001</TD> - -<TD NOSAVE> -<B>Kernel</B><BR> -Things are going pretty well right now. We're now working off the -official 2.4.0 kernel. Next I'll merge in 2.4.1. We intend to -track the 2.4.x series at least until 2.5 starts. Don't know -which way we'll go at that point yet... -<P> -Andy's pagelet layer is in place, making the -main kernel think we really have 4K pages, when we really only have -512-byte pages. (Sssh! Don't tell it...). Good work Andy! -<P> -Richard Banks has started trying it out on a MicroVAX 3100 Model 85 -(KA55 CPU) and, well, it's just not working... My best guess is -that the PCB needs to be set up correctly before turning on virtual -memory. I'll get to that real soon now, Richard. Honestly... -<P> -Anyway, I've tagged a build as kh-20010220 in CVS. You can see -the default configuration (i.e. rm .config && make oldconfig) booting -on a -<A HREF="bootlogs/bootlog-kenn-vs3100m76-20010220.txt"> -VAXstation 3100 Model 76</A> and a -<A HREF="bootlogs/bootlog-kenn-vs4000m60-20010220.txt"> -VAXstation 4000 Model 60</A>. Thanks for the 4000/60, Andy! -(Incidentally, those BOOTP transmission attempts in the VS3100 -bootlog are not actually putting packets on the wire.) -<P> -<B>Toolchain</B><BR> -You will need the 20001231 toolchain to build this kernel. -You can get it from CVS or grab snapshots from -<A HREF="ftp://linux-vax.sourceforge.net/pub/linux-vax/tools/Binaries/"> -the FTP site</A>. -</td> -</TR> - -<!-- News entry boundary --> - -<TR VALIGN=TOP NOSAVE> -<TD>31 DEC 2000</TD> - -<TD NOSAVE> -<B>Kernel</B><BR> -Some reasonable progress recently. Check out this -<A HREF="bootlogs/bootlog-kenn-vs3100-20001231.txt">boot sequence</A> -on my VS3100m76. The LANCE ethernet chip, one of the NCR5380 SCSI -controllers, the internal SCSI disk and it's partitions are -detected. The usual bunch of initial kernel threads are created -and you can see the scheduler switching between them while it -waits for an interrupt from the disk. -<P> -I've tagged this build as kh-20001231. -<P> -Unfortunately, getting further is going to be a bit more difficult. -I'm starting to run into problems due to our small PAGE_SIZE, that -won't be easy to get around. Following discussions with Andy, I'm -going to start working on 2.4 which should make things easier for -us. -<P> -<B>Toolchain</B><BR> -I've CVS tagged a toolchain build as tools-linuxvax-20001231. -Real soon now, I'll be checking in a kernel change that will -require this new toolchain. So now might be a good time to -cvs update and rebuild. -<P> -You <EM>don't</EM> need this latest toolchain to build kh-20001231. -The 20000808 release should work fine. -<P> -Oh yeah... Happy new year! - KPH -</td> -</TR> - -<!-- News entry boundary --> - -<TR VALIGN=TOP NOSAVE> -<TD>11 AUG 2000</TD> - -<TD NOSAVE> -<B>Toolchain</B><BR> -Snapshots of the gcc-2.95.2/binutils 2.10 toolchain -released, and available on the FTP site. Source and -Binary versions for Linux/i386 are provided, with -documentation to follow (honest). (atp) -</td> -</TR> - -<TR VALIGN=TOP NOSAVE> -<TD>07 AUG 2000</TD> - -<TD NOSAVE> -<B>Toolchain</B><BR> -Andy continues to work on the toolchain. Migration to gcc-2.95.2 seems -to be complete (at least it makes bootable kernels for me - Kenn). -He continues to work through the bugs. Hopefully we'll do a binary -snapshot of the toolchain soon, for those of you who don't want to -compile up your own tools.<BR> -<B>Kernel</B><BR> -Dave Airlie's LANCE ethernet driver for the VS3100-series machines -is starting to take shape. Well, it generates lots of output on -the console and then prints the ethernet address!<BR> -<B>Docs</B><BR> -Dave's also started on a proper <A HREF="linux-vax/newfaq/linux_vax.html"> -FAQ</A> generated from <A HREF="linux-vax/newfaq/linux_vax.sgml">these -SGML sources</A>. -</td> -</TR> - - -<TR VALIGN=TOP NOSAVE> -<TD>23 JUL 2000</TD> - -<TD NOSAVE> -<B>Toolchain</B><BR> -A newer binutils (version 2.10) has been checked into CVS. It seems to work -fine so far. Details in Andy's -<A HREF="http://solar.physics.montana.edu/hypermail/linux-vax/0381.html"> -mail message</A>. <BR> -<B>Kernel</B><BR> -The interrupt and exception handling framework is complete. I hope... <BR> -Interrupt and exception handlers are all registered at run-time now. -It looks like autoprobing interrupt vectors will be possible too. -</td> -</TR> - -<TR VALIGN=TOP NOSAVE> -<TD>14 JUL 2000</TD> - -<TD NOSAVE> -<B>Website</B><BR> -The website is now updated via CVS. The pages are pulled -from CVS hourly.<BR> -Out of date <A HREF="linux-vax/docs.html">documentation</A> has been -removed and replaced with a link to current docs.<BR> -<B>Kernel</B><BR> -We're getting further slowly. <A HREF="bootlogs/bootlog-kenn-vs3100-20000714.txt">Here</A> -is Kenn's VAXstation 3100 booting the latest kernel. The framework for handling -interrupts is taking shape... -</td> -</TR> - -<TR VALIGN=TOP NOSAVE> -<TD>23 FEB 2000</TD> - -<TD NOSAVE>Web site has moved to <a -href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/linux-vax">SourceForge</a> Expect some broken links and -general randomness as we iron out bugs. -</td> -</TR> - -<TR VALIGN=TOP NOSAVE> -<TD>18 FEB 2000</TD> - -<TD NOSAVE>This project is moving to sourceforge, in order to speed up -access to the software and to allow people aside from me to manage the web site. -<BR>New release this weekend. </TD> -</TR> - -<TR VALIGN=TOP NOSAVE> -<TD>01 FEB 99</TD> - -<TD>New snapshots at the http link. Old packages are still available under -the "old" directory. A mopd, this time including the loop.c fix, has been -put up as well. Whilst I'm away patches and new releases can be found on -Kenn's site at <A HREF="http://www.bluetree.ie/~kenn/linux-vax/">www.bluetree.ie</A></TD> -</TR> - -<TR VALIGN=TOP NOSAVE> -<TD>24 OCT 99</TD> - -<TD> -<OL> -<LI> -All the vaxes have arrived. The only problem now is that as a result of -moving jobs and house, they are all in storage.</LI> - -<LI> -The mailing list has moved. The new details are below.</LI> - -<LI> -If you were on the old linux-vax list, you will have to re-subscribe, as -the list of members was not saved.</LI> - -<LI> -I am about to depart to a desert island (with no internet access) for several -months. I'll try to update documentation and the web site before I go.</LI> - -<LI> -Simplified web pages a bit. Amazing how being on a DECstation running NetBSD -with a 33.6 dialup instead of a T1 can lead to a lack of patience with -useless graphics.</LI> -</OL> -</TD> -</TR> - -<TR VALIGN=TOP NOSAVE> -<TD NOSAVE>25 JUL 99</TD> - -<TD>New snapshots for things at the download link. -<BR>Linux C code now compiles. Pretty much all of arch-dependent stuff -to do -<BR>(or redo) still. I'm acquiring the rest of the VAX hardware I need -tomorrow. -<BR>Still dont know where to store it ...</TD> -</TR> -</TABLE> -</TD> -</TR> -</TABLE> -</TD> -</TR> - -<TR> -<TD><B><FONT FACE="Arial,Helvetica"><FONT COLOR="#FFFFFF"><FONT SIZE=+1>Mailing -List</FONT></FONT></FONT></B> -<TABLE CELLSPACING=0 COLS=1 WIDTH="100%" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" NOSAVE > -<TR> -<TD><FONT FACE="Arial,Helvetica">A mailing list exists, imaginatively titled -<TT>linux-vax</TT>. It has Just changed its home.</FONT> -<BR><FONT FACE="Arial,Helvetica">to subscribe, send an email to:</FONT> -<P><FONT FACE="Courier New,Courier"><FONT SIZE=-1>majordomo @ solar.physics.montana.edu</FONT></FONT> -<P><FONT FACE="Arial,Helvetica">with</FONT> -<P><FONT FACE="Arial,Helvetica">"</FONT><FONT FACE="Courier New,Courier"><FONT SIZE=-1>subscribe -linux-vax</FONT></FONT><FONT FACE="Arial,Helvetica">" in the body (without -the quotes of course)</FONT> -<P> There is a hypermail mailing list <A HREF="http://solar.physics.montana.edu/hypermail/linux-vax/">archive</A> -as well. -<P><B>If you were a member of the old list at resserv, you will need to -resubscribe to the new list, as the list of members was not saved.</B> -<BR> </TD> -</TR> -</TABLE> -</TD> -</TR> - -<TR> -<TD><B><FONT FACE="Arial,Helvetica"><FONT COLOR="#FFFFFF"><FONT SIZE=+1>Downloads</FONT></FONT></FONT></B> -<TABLE CELLSPACING=0 COLS=1 WIDTH="100%" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" NOSAVE > -<TR> -<TD> -<BR><FONT FACE="Helvetica, Arial"><FONT SIZE=+0><A -HREF="ftp://linux-vax.sourceforge.net/pub/linux-vax/">ftp: -Software Snapshots at sourceforge. (Main Site) </A></FONT></FONT><br> -<BR><FONT FACE="Helvetica, Arial"><FONT SIZE=+0><A HREF="ftp://ftp.mssl.ucl.ac.uk/projects/linux-vax/">ftp: -Software Snapshots at MSSL (Old Site) </A></FONT></FONT><p> -The FTP site is now up to date.<p> -<P><FONT FACE="Arial,Helvetica"><A HREF="/linux-vax/download">http: -Software Snapshots at sourceforge (out of order)</A></FONT> -<P><FONT FACE="Helvetica, Arial"><FONT SIZE=+0> -See the <A HREF="ftp://linux-vax.sourceforge.net/pub/linux-vax/README.vax">README.vax</A> -at the FTP site for details on what you need to download. -</FONT></FONT> -<BR> </TD> -</TR> -</TABLE> -</TD> -</TR> -</TABLE> - -<P><FONT FACE="Arial,Helvetica">More info about VAXes can be found -at the DIGITAL VAX Home page. 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