Here you will find information on the current state of the development effort. It will be updated periodically and will give you a snapshot of the current state of Linux on the PA-RISC. For more information on the current state of the PA-RISC project see Weekly Reports and check out our list of Contributors.

Current To Do List

2000 To Do Archive

1999 To Do Archive

2000 TO DO ARCHIVE

• Fix user stacks so they start at a reasonable address and grow upwards. (Matthew)

• Added chassis LED- and LCD-driver. (Helge)

• Initial merge with Linus, including a few tidy-ups to our tree. (Alan Cox, Matthew Wilcox)

• Fixed parallel port driver to not crash kernel on early ASP based machines. (Helge)

• Fixed remaining __FUNCTION__ usage to be complaint w/gcc definition (Grant)
• Merge to linux-2.4.0-test10 completed (Paul Bame)
• palinux-linux v0.5 beta ISO published! (Paul Lahaie)
• Fixed strace (Richard)

• 64-bit: PCI Interrupt Routing (iosapic support) (Grant)
• 64-bit: PCI Resource init/mngt (Grant)
• "reboot" command works on c3k/j5k (Grant)
• PS/2 keyboard driver is missing various important keysyms (Thomas Marteau (ESIEE Team))

  (No - I'm not the only person working on this port - just happen to muck with this list more than anyone else. :^) -grant)

• 64-bit: Fixed PDC wrappers so upper half of "callee saves" register don't get trashed Paul)
• VM: Paging now works (John)
• VM: Fixed most outstanding bugs! A180 is quite stable now... (John)
• PA1.1 Hand-Tuned/Optimised asm IP checksum code (Randolph)
• SMP : add cpuinfo_parisc cpu_data[] and fix boot_cpu_data usage (Grant)
• update /proc/interrupts info (Helge)
• Added "bits_wide" parameter to txn_alloc_data(). (Grant)

• dynamic user stack. ( Richard/ David )
• Finish ptrace(2) implementation. (Thomas)
• STI fbcon driver - STI console works (David)
• update "How-To Build the Kernel" recipe (Alan Modra)
• 64-bit kernel : PAT PDC device discovery (Grant)
• Smarter resource mgmt in ccio driver (Ryan)
• Smarter resource mgmt in sba driver (Grant)
• Implement kernel module loading (this is half userspace work). ( Richard/ David )

• Kernel built/booted all native! (Richard)
• base/glibc/gcc/etc debs are now available (David)
• STI console driver(Helge and Paul)
• Smarter resource mgmt in ccio driver (Ryan)
• merged rbrad's changes into sba (Grant)
• User stack grows dynamically! (Richard)
• flush_kernel_dcache_range(): off-by-one bug found/fixed by fleedwood/jsm
• SBA I/O MMU: LCI bug fixed w/help from chada/jsm
• 64-bit kernel almost gets to user space on c3k

• Linux syscalls (John)
• Signals (David)
• Check other arches for new syscalls we don't have and add them. (Matthew)
• WAX EISA adapter. (Helge)
• Symbios 8xx SCSI driver (Richard)
• NCR 720 Zalon SCSI driver (Richard)

• NCR710 driver (Gyula)
• pci_consistent() interfaces implementation (Grant)
• ELF-reenable the kernel (Sam)

Kernel

• IO SAPIC support (Grant)
• C3000/J5000 PCI support (Grant)
• Tulip driver
• LASI Apricot ethernet (Sammy)
• IP checksum code in C (Thomas)
• console termios setup (Martin)
• Moved to Kernel 2.3.42

Userland

• Sash 3.4 works (Matthew)
• ifconf (Matthew)
• httpd (Josh)