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Update of /cvsroot/linux-vax/www/htdocs In directory sc8-pr-cvs1.sourceforge.net:/tmp/cvs-serv23982 Modified Files: newsframe.html Log Message: - Drop all the bloated HTML. - Add a note that I'm going to go to the Developer's Meeting in Oldenburg, Germany. If you can manage to come to Oldenburg (the plan is Sep 22.-26.), please do so!!! 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VXT2000's -and uVax3100's using the card should now be able to netboot -their machines. Get the latest version from CVS and make -sure you enable the SGEC in your kernel config. -<P> -</td> - -<!-- News entry boundary --> - -<TR VALIGN=TOP NOSAVE> -<TD>24 Sep 2001</TD> - -<TD NOSAVE> -The old FTP site is no more. A copy has been saved at -<a href="http://www.pergamentum.com/~atp/vax/old_ftp/"> -http://www.pergamentum.com/~atp/vax/old_ftp/</a> But its -pretty much out of date. New stuff is at the download link -off the main page. -<P> -</td> - -<!-- News entry boundary --> - -<TR VALIGN=TOP NOSAVE> -<TD>01 Apr 2002</TD> - -<TD NOSAVE> -(Andy Phillips) Kernel version now up to 2.4.14. Work progressing towards -keeping current with a view to merging in 2.5.x. Dave is tackling the -port of glibc3, with a view to shared libraries. -<P> -</td> - -<!-- News entry boundary --> - -<TR VALIGN=TOP NOSAVE> -<TD>23 Sep 2001</TD> - -<TD NOSAVE> -A new root image has been posted to the download area. -This contains instructions and prebuilt kernels for some -VAXstatsions, and should allow (with some self assembly) -most people to enjoy the bleeding edge of Linux/VAX -development. -<P> -</td> - -<!-- 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> +<HTML> + <HEAD> + <TITLE>VAX-Linux News</TITLE> + </HEAD> + <BODY TEXT="#000000" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" LINK="#009900" VLINK="#990032" ALINK="#6F7463" FONT FACE="Helvetica"> + <TABLE border="1"> + <THEAD> + <TR BGCOLOR="#990033"> + <TH colspan="2"> + <BIG><B><EM>News</EM></B></BIG> + </TH> + </TR> + </THEAD> + <TBODY valign="top" align="left"> + <TR valign="top" align="left"> + <TD>22 Jul 2004</TD> + <TD> + <B>Info</B><BR> + Jan-Benedict Glaw is to show up with + a 3100/78, a 4000/60 and a 4000/90 + at the Developer's Meeting in Oldenburg, + Germany. TODO: network on 3100/78, + get 4000/90 to fully boot (currently no timer + interrupts, so it stops during calculating + delay loop...). Maybe others show up, too? + <P> + Oh, sorry for not putting any news online + since, um, sooo long... + </TD> + </TR> + <TR> + <TD>31 May 2002</TD> + <TD> + <B>Kernel</B><BR> + The SGEC Ethernet driver is now functional. + VXT2000's and uVax3100's using the card + should now be able to netboot their machines. + Get the latest version from CVS and make sure + you enable the SGEC in your kernel config. + </TD> + </TR> + <TR> + <TD>24 Sep 2002</TD> + <TD> + <B>Info</B><BR> + The old FTP site is no more. A copy has been + saved at + <A href="http://www.pergamentum.com/~atp/vax/old_ftp/"> + http://www.pergamentum.com/~atp/vax/old_ftp/</a>. But + it's pretty much out of date. New stuff is at the + download link off the main page. + </TD> + </TR> + <TR> + <TD>01 Apr 2002</TD> + <TD> + <B>Kernel</B><BR> + (Andy Phillips) Kernel version now up to 2.4.14. + Work progressing towards keeping current with a + view to merging in 2.5.x. Dave is tackling the + port of glibc3, with a view to shared libraries. + </TD> + </TR> + <TR> + <TD>23 Sep 2001</TD> + <TD> + <B>Userland</B><BR> + A new root image has been posted to the download + area. This contains instructions and prebuilt + kernels for some VAXstatsions, and should allow + (with some self assembly) most people to enjoy + the bleeding edge of Linux/VAX development. + </TD> + </TR> + <TR> + <TD>20 Sep 2001</TD> + <TD> + <B>Kernel</B><BR> + 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. + </TD> + </TR> + <TR> + <TD>24 Jun 2001</TD> + <TD> + <B>Userland</B><BR> + Mopd, uLibc and busybox now in CVS. + </TD> + </TR> + <TR> + <TD>16 Jun 2001</TD> + <TD> + <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>. + </TD> + </TR> + <TR> + <TD>11 Jun 2001</TD> + <TD> + <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... Complete + bootlog and more information will be + available soon. + </TD> + </TR> + <TR> + <TD>21 Feb 2001</TD> + <TD> + <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... This + build is tagged as kh-20010221. + </TD> + </TR> + <TR> + <TD>20 Feb 2001</TD> + <TD> + <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 + ion 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> + <TR> + <TD>31 Dec 2000</TD> + <TD> + <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 + tocvs 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> + <TR> + <TD>11 Aug 2000</TD> + <TD> + <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> + <TD>07 Aug 2000</TD> + <TD> + <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. + <P> + <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>Info</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> + <TD>23 Jul 2000</TD> + <TD> + <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>. + <P> + <B>Kernel</B><BR> + The interrupt and exception handling framework + is complete. I hope... + <P> + Interrupt and exception handlers are all + registered at run-time now. It looks like + autoprobing interrupt vectors will be + possible too. + </TD> + </TR> + <TR> + <TD>14 Jul 2000</TD> + <TD> + <B>Info</B><BR> + The website is now updated via CVS. The pages + are pulled from CVS hourly. + <P> + Out of date + <A HREF="linux-vax/docs.html">documentation</A> + has been removed and replaced with a link to + current docs.<P> + <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> + <TD>23 Feb 2000</TD> + <TD> + <B>Info</B><BR> + 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> + <TD>18 Feb 2000</TD> + <TD> + <B>Info</B><BR> + 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. + <P> + New release this weekend. + </TD> + </TR> + <TR> + <TD>01 Feb 1999</TD> + <TD> + <B>Info</B><BR> + 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/"> + http://www.bluetree.ie</A> + </TD> + </TR> + <TR> + <TD>24 Oct 1999</TD> + <TD> + <B>Info</B><BR> + <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> -<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> + <LI>The mailing list has moved. The new + details are below.</LI> -</table> -<SCRIPT> -<!-- -document.write("<font size=-1>Last modified "+document.lastModified+"</font>"); -// --> -</SCRIPT> + <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> + <TD>25 Jul 1999</TD> + <TD> + <B>Info</B><BR> + New snapshots for things at the download + link. + <P> + Linux C code now compiles. Pretty much all + of arch-dependent stuff to do (or redo) still. + I'm acquiring the rest of the VAX hardware I + need tomorrow. + <P> + Still dont know where to store it ... + </TD> + </TR> + </TBODY> + </TABLE> + <BR> + <SMALL> + <SCRIPT> + <!-- + document.write("Last modified: " + document.lastModified); + --> + </SCRIPT> + </SMALL> </BODY> - +</HTML> |
