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PA-RISC is the proprietary HP RISC processor architecture originally designed for HP-UX. Project to run Linux on these machines started in October 1998. Linux first booted on PA-RISC on 25 June 1999. The PA-RISC LinuxKernel is now integrated into 2.6 mainline (the parisc git tree is [[http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/kyle/parisc-2.6.git;a=summary|here]]). 2.4 is nonetheless way out of sync with mainline (you need to use the [[http://cvs.parisc-linux.org/download/linux-2.4/|CVS snapshot]] to build it). Two linux [[Distributions]] now support PA-RISC: Debian (since woody 3.0, released) and Gentoo (experimental). PA-RISC linux is not “officially” supported by HP.
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PA-RISC is the proprietary HP RISC processor architecture originally designed for HP-UX. Project to run Linux on these machines started in October 1998. Linux first booted on PA-RISC on 25 June 1999. The PA-RISC Linux Kernel is now integrated into 2.6 mainline ([http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux.git parisc git tree]). 2.4 is nonetheless way out of sync with mainline (you need to use the [[http://cvs.parisc-linux.org/download/linux-2.4/|CVS snapshot]] to build it). Two linux [[Distributions]] now support PA-RISC: Debian (since woody 3.0, released) and Gentoo (experimental). PA-RISC linux is not “officially” supported by HP.
  
 
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== How does it work? ==

Revision as of 16:04, 5 February 2014

The PA-RISC/Linux Project

What is it?

PA-RISC is the proprietary HP RISC processor architecture originally designed for HP-UX. Project to run Linux on these machines started in October 1998. Linux first booted on PA-RISC on 25 June 1999. The PA-RISC Linux Kernel is now integrated into 2.6 mainline (parisc git tree). 2.4 is nonetheless way out of sync with mainline (you need to use the [snapshot] to build it). Two linux Distributions now support PA-RISC: Debian (since woody 3.0, released) and Gentoo (experimental). PA-RISC linux is not “officially” supported by HP.

How does it work?

Palinux describes the project for getting Linux running on the PA-RISC processor. There are two elements: The LinuxKernel which supports the hardware and the user applications. A third piece is the boot loader (also known as PALO, the equivalent of LILO) which is part of the BootingSystem.

You can find more information about the PA-RISC architecture at http://www.openpa.net/

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