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 Status Reports and check out our list of Contributors.

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Photos of the Birth of PA-RISC/Linux Discovered!

Once thought lost in the mists of time, a photo revealing the origins of PA-RISC/Linux have been uncovered by a crack team of cyberarchaeologists!

This rare and exciting photograph (taken by the forward-thinking historian, Zach Brown) is now on public display at:

http://www.zabbo.net/showcase98/mallfood.jpg

The photo reveals the attendees of the historic occassion: Jes Sorensen, Phil Schwan, the back of Travis Melhiser, Chris Beard (hiding), Alex deVries, and Martin Petersen. The photo was taken mere moments after the discussion in which this team of developers realized that PA-RISC was pretty much the only architecture to which Linux hadn't yet been ported. Catering services were provided by a lacklustre foodcourt in a to-remain-unnamed mall somewhere in Atlanta (during the Atlanta Linux Showcase, 1998).

Move to 2.3

In order to advance the PA-RISC/Linux port, the development team is working to move to a more active development tree by merging the current tree with Linus' 2.3 tree. Philipp Rumpf and Matthew Wilcox are the leads for this section of the project.

John David Anglin and Paul Bame worked on the command linker, SOM, and real-mode changes.

The bootable image creation has been modified.

Philip I. Schwan made fixes to the CVS tree so that the revision history isn't lost during Alex deVries' gsc-to-gecko transition.

Grant Grundler further optimized the build process.

Paul Bame added debug messages to the TLB handler, as well as made changes so that real mode code is seperately linked into the kernel.

Kernel: based on 2.2.13

Supported Machines:

most of the A180c, parts of 712 Gecko and 715 workstations and portions of 2.0 machines

Supported Hardware:

SCSI, Lan and PS/2 on Lasi I/O controller, Dino PCI, Tulip ethernet

Project Page:

http://www.thepuffingroup.com/parisc/

Latest Workable Image:

ftp://puffin.external.hp.com/pub/parisc/linux-2.2.13.gz

Running PA-RISC/Linux "recipe":

http://thepuffingroup.com/parisc/recipe.html