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= OLD NEWS =
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| style="vertical-align:top;" |'''Dec 2020'''||Reached [http://buildd.debian.org/status/architecture.php?a=hppa&suite=sid 12.000 pre-built debian packages].
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| style="vertical-align:top;" |'''Oct 2020'''||In Kernel 5.10 O_NONBLOCK was changed to become 000200000 (instead of 000200004). This is a binary ABI change and requires userspace (glibc, dietlibc, systemd) to be recompiled with the new value. The kernel has wrapper functions which provide backwards compatibility.
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| style="vertical-align:top;" |'''Aug 2020'''||[mailto:roger@nextmovesoftware.com Roger Sayle] fixed a long-standing [https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=87256 gcc compiler bug which unnecessarily slowed down compile time].  
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| style="vertical-align:top;" |'''Jul 2020'''||Helge steps up as new [https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/rbootd.git/ rbootd] maintainer.<br>
Dave fixes a [https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=be6577af0cef934ccb036445314072e8cb9217b9 long-lasting kernel CPU soft lockup bug].<br>
Many bugfixes [https://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=79826f99feb7222b7804058f0b4ace9ee0546361 1][https://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=b1af755c33bf0d690553a5ccd93689dfd15a98e8 2] and improvements for qemu and preparations for qemu-5.1.0 release.
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| style="vertical-align:top;" |'''Feb 2020'''||The graphics and device patches for PA-RISC have been applied to QEMU git.  
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| style="vertical-align:top;" |'''Sep 2019'''||[http://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/palo.git/ PALO v2.12 released]. Added [http://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=fc697dc0c26a5908d467454e49440862d7fe96d0 kexec support] and [http://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=52a22e6c27be9089fdd9c4e1857939f0dec8f57c enhanced ftrace support] to Linux kernel v5.4. LASI support (serial, parallel, network, PS/2 keyboard & PS/2 mouse) and Artist graphics w/STI emulation for QEMU and SeaBIOS. 
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| style="vertical-align:top;" |'''Jul 2019'''||[http://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/palo.git/ Released PALO version v2.11] with important enhancements by [mailto:James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com James Bottomley] like added ext4-support, IPL overlap with newer ext2/ext3 resize_inode was fixed and the iplboot bootcode loader is now placed inside the disk label.
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| style="vertical-align:top;" |'''May 2019'''||Linux kernel 5.2 supports [http://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=dbdf0760990583649bfaca75fd98f76afd5f3905 SPARSEMEM instead of DISCONTIGMEM], [http://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=62217beb394e654bbd2bb87c533dadd2d8bf62c6 static branches] and [http://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=b37d1c1898b288c69f3dc9267bc2c41af06f4a4b per-pagetable spinlocks].
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| style="vertical-align:top;" |'''Apr 2019'''||[mailto:svens@stackframe.org Sven] adds [http://parisc.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/KGDB '''KGDB'''] and [http://lwn.net/Articles/132196/ '''KPROBES'''] support for the Linux kernel version 5.2.
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| style="vertical-align:top;" |'''Mar 2019'''||Lots of fixes and improvements in the QEMU CPU- and SCSI emulation code as well as for the SeaBIOS firmware due to efforts of [mailto:svens@stackframe.org Sven Schnelle]. See the [http://parisc.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Qemu PA-RISC Qemu Wiki page] for latest updates.<br>
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| style="vertical-align:top;" |'''Jan 2019'''||Debian kernel 4.20 will ship built as SMP kernel only (for 32- and 64-bit), which then patches itself at bootup to run faster on uniprocessor machines if it detects only one CPU.<br>
The OSUOSL team was so nice to upgrade the debian buildd servers: "parisc" has now two 300 GB (instead of two 68 GB) and panama three 300 GB (instead of two 18 GB) SCSI discs. Thanks!
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| style="vertical-align:top;" |'''Nov 2018'''||A new complete [http://lore.kernel.org/linux-parisc/ parisc-linux mailing list archive is now available at lore.kernel.org]. It even contains the [http://lore.kernel.org/linux-parisc/Pine.LNX.4.04.9901291134480.1532-100000@sprite.osfi-bsif.gc.ca/ very first parisc-linux mail].<br/>
Linux kernel 4.20 includes the [http://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=3847dab77421867fbc77faacb2f377d44e729e1b "alternative"-feature which enables us to do live-patching of the kernel code at bootup time]. With this feature we will be able to build a SMP kernel which is patched at boottime to run faster on a UP system. 
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| style="vertical-align:top;" |'''Sep 2018'''||Reached [http://buildd.debian.org/status/architecture.php?a=hppa&suite=sid 11.700 pre-built debian unstable packages].
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| style="vertical-align:top;" |'''Jul 2018'''||Dave fixed a [http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2018-07/msg00474.html long-standing binutils bug which generated wrong debug unwind info].<br/>
[http://db.debian.org/machines.cgi?host=panama Debian porterbox panama.debian.net is now available].
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| style="vertical-align:top;" |'''Apr 2018'''||The Linux kernel [http://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=c6185e285c5c7cfeab739bae7f206ced695f09c7 now powers off rp34x0 and C8000 machines at shutdown via built-in BMC controller].
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| style="vertical-align:top;" |'''Mar 2018'''||New documentation on how to access the [[BMC|Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) in rp34x0 and C8000 machines]].
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| style="vertical-align:top;" |'''Feb 2018'''||[[Qemu|QEMU 2.12 supports parisc system-emulation (qemu-system-hppa)]] thanks to [https://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=b05631954d6dfe93340d516660397e2c1a2a5dd6 contributions by Richard Henderson and Helge Deller].
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| style="vertical-align:top;" |'''Jan 2018'''||New [http://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/palo.git/ palo bootloader v2.00 released]. The  callee copies ABI of gcc (on 32-bit hppa) created lots of optimization issues and problems with OpenMP, so [http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2018-01/msg01518.html Dave committed a patch to switch to the caller copy ABI] instead. First Qemu-related [http://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=310d82784fb4d60c80569f5ca9f53a7f3bf1d477 patches to Linux kernel to reduce power consumption on the host] have been submitted and the Qemu hardware emulation works fully stable with a booted Linux. Even an emulated 32-CPU PA-RISC SMP machine was running stable.  
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| style="vertical-align:top;" |'''Dec 2017'''||Development on parisc hardware emulation via qemu is ongoing. Richard Henderson maintains the [https://github.com/rth7680/qemu/commits/tgt-hppa-softmmu hppa qemu git tree] while Helge Deller works on a [https://github.com/hdeller/seabios-hppa/commits/parisc_firmware parisc IODC and PDC firmware emulation via a SeaBIOS fork]. The emulation already boots a Debian install CD, runs through whole kernel initialization code and even runs quite far into the init process. 
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| style="vertical-align:top;" |'''Sep 2017'''||New Debian-9 installer image is now available at [https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/ official cdimage places]. Many thanks to Adrian Glaubitz!<br/>
Kernel 4.14 includes full support for Page Deallocation Table (PDT), the UBSAN checker and kernel self-decompressor.
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| style="vertical-align:top;" |'''Aug 2017'''||Kernel 4.13 includes initial Page Deallocation Table (PDT) support to avoid using broken memory by the Linux kernel.<br/>
Dave submitted all outstanding patches for hppa to glibc v2.26. Linuxthread support was dropped and switched to the generic nptl support instead. Unwinding was fixed to support pthread cancellation.<br/>
Thomas Bogendoerfer fixed the PCI memory bar assignment on Dino/Cujo machines and as such got ATI graphic cards to work on such machines.<br/>
New [https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/palo.git/ palo bootloader v1.99 released] which fixes problems when loading huge kernels, e.g. with kernel UBSAN support enabled.<br/>
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| style="vertical-align:top;" |'''June 2017'''||[https://lists.debian.org/debian-hppa/2017/06/msg00006.html Mike Hosken announced a new set of Debian 9 installation medias] which are [http://prometheus.parisc-linux.org/debian-cd/ available for download]<br/>
New [https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/palo.git/ palo bootloader v1.98 released] which fixes serial console on rp3410 and rp3440 servers.<br/>
There are now [https://buildd.debian.org/status/architecture.php?a=hppa&suite=sid more than 11.600 pre-built debian unstable packages] available.
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| style="vertical-align:top;" |'''May 2017'''||[mailto:roberto@debian.org Roberto C. Sánchez] sponsored a [http://www.openpa.net/systems/hp-9000_rp3410_rp3440.html HP rp3410 server] with [[Rp3410|one 800 MHz PA8900 CPU which we upgraded to 5 GB RAM and added a 146 GB hard disc]]. The server is now reachable as [https://monitor.jrtc27.com/ panama.parisc-linux.org] and acts as a debian buildd machine. [http://osuosl.org/ Hosting is sponsored by OSU Open Source Lab]. Thanks to all people involved, especially to the great system administrators at OSUOSL (Samarendra Hedaoo and Justin Dugger).
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| style="vertical-align:top;" |'''Apr 2017'''||John Paul Adrian Glaubitz and James Clarke made the [https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2017/04/msg00023.html debian-installer available in debian-ports repositories]
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| style="vertical-align:top;" |'''Feb 2017'''||Alan Modra and Dave Anglin [https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=8a3cacb06d6ecfbe3ab0e0059bf6a4eb8b4b9dc6 fix pie support on hppa] and [https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21000 add -z relro support to binutils]
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| style="vertical-align:top;" |'''Jan 2017'''||[https://lists.debian.org/debian-hppa/2017/01/msg00001.html New Debian-9 installation CDs] by Mike Hosken.
Reached [https://buildd.debian.org/status/architecture.php?a=hppa&suite=sid more than 11.500 pre-built debian unstable packages].
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| style="vertical-align:top;" |'''Dec 2016'''||Reached more than 11.400 pre-built debian unstable packages.
John David Anglin and John Paul Adrian Glaubitz fix the [https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=firefox&suite=sid Firefox webbrowser] with help of Michael Karcher.
The debian buildd servers switched to a unified automated build setup by James Clarke. Status of the buildds can be seen at https://monitor.jrtc27.com/
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| style="vertical-align:top;" | '''Nov 2016'''||[https://marc.info/?l=glibc-alpha&m=147869603031638&w=2 Richard Henderson announced initial work on a user-only target of hppa to QEMU].
The website and domain http://pateam.org has expired and all content is now archived at http://pateam.parisc-linux.org/. Thanks to Thibaut Varene for his work on pateam.org.
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| style="vertical-align:top;" |'''Oct 2016'''||New [https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/deller/palo.git/ palo v1.96 bugfix release available]. 
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| style="vertical-align:top;" |'''Sep 2016'''||Reached more than 11.300 pre-built debian unstable packages.
Linux Kernel 4.7 now [http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=54b668009076caddbede8fde513ca2c982590bfe includes a high-resolution timer] based on the cr16 clocksource.
Debian perl transition finished.
Debian Linux Kernel 4.7.5 available.
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| style="vertical-align:top;" |'''Aug 2016'''||Debian transitions to gcc-6 and boost1.61, Debian on hppa changes the default mpi implementation from mpich to openmpi
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| style="vertical-align:top;" |'''Jul 2016'''||Reached more than 11.200 pre-built debian unstable packages.
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| style="vertical-align:top;" |'''Jun 2016'''||Reached more than 11.100 pre-built debian unstable packages.
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| style="vertical-align:top;" |'''Apr 2016'''||Linux kernel 4.7 got improved kernel ftrace support, kernel regset support and a native high-resolution clock/timing support.
Additional debian buildd make server added (savaria.parisc-linux.org). 
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| style="vertical-align:top;" |'''Mar 2016'''||Solved a [https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=70188 bug in gcc-4.9 (and higher)] which [http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.parisc/26425 crashes kernel 4.3+ in the SCSI/block layer]. 
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| style="vertical-align:top;" |'''Feb 2016'''||We now have more than 11.000 pre-built debian unstable packages.
Many bugs in kernel and userspace were fixed. 
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| style="vertical-align:top;" |'''Jan 2016'''||Reached more than 10.900 pre-built debian unstable packages. 
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| style="vertical-align:top;" |'''Dec 2015'''||[http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=736d2169338a50c8814efc186b5423aee43b0c68 Huge Page support for PA-RISC was added to the Linux Kernel].
A long-standing [http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=71a71fb5374a23be36a91981b5614590b9e722c3 syscall restart bug was fixed].
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| style="vertical-align:top;" |'''Oct 2015'''||Dave & Helge fixed some bugs in [https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=68079 gcc] and [https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19170 glibc] which e.g. fixed the build of Qt5/KDE packages.
For the first time ever we now have more pre-built debian packages than alpha or ppc64 and reached more than 10.800 packages.
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| style="vertical-align:top;" |'''Sep 2015'''||We have an additional Debian buildd server (phantom.parisc-linux.org with 4 x 1 GHz PA8900 CPUs, 12 GB RAM, 120 GB SSD) online.
Dave [http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=1b59ddfcf1678de38a1f8ca9fb8ea5eebeff1843 fixed 64bit CAS LWS so that we will get 64bit gcc atomic builtins].
Helge [http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=b1b4e435e4ef7de77f07bf2a42c8380b960c2d44 fixed boot problems because of early serial port irqs on C8000 with PA8900 CPUs].
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| style="vertical-align:top;" |'''Aug 2015'''||One of our buildd servers (hpviz) died. Debian-ports archive is now integrated with Debian buildd service again. 
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| style="vertical-align:top;" |'''Jul 2015'''||Reached more than 10.700 pre-built debian unstable packages. 
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| style="vertical-align:top;" |'''Jun 2015'''||Reached more than 10.600 pre-built debian unstable packages. 
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| style="vertical-align:top;" |'''Apr 2015'''||Reached more than 10.520 pre-built debian unstable packages which is just around 60 packages less than the leading debian-ports architectures alpha and ppc64. 
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| style="vertical-align:top;" |'''Mar 2015'''||Installation numbers of hppa debian machines grow to 25 in the [http://popcon.debian.org Debian Popularity Contest].
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| style="vertical-align:top;" |'''Feb 2015'''||[http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian-cd/hppa/debian-8.0/ DEBIAN 8.0 (jessie) Installer images] and [[Debian_Ports_Installation|Installation instructions]] now available.
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| style="vertical-align:top;" |'''Jan 2015'''||Compared to other architectures on debian-ports, the PA-RISC / HPPA architecture now has the most number of packages up-to-date:  http://buildd.debian-ports.org/stats/graph2-week-big.png
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| style="vertical-align:top;" |'''Dec 2014'''||Full range of gcc atomic builtins committed into gcc-4.9 which helped us to build packages which were not posible before (in total we are now at 10.400 prebuilt debian packages).
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| style="vertical-align:top;" |'''Nov 2014'''||We now fully support systemd with debian packages glibc-2.19-13 and linux-image-3.16.0-4 (kernel 3.16.7).
The [http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.parisc contents of the parisc-linux kernel mailinglist were imported into gmane.org archive]
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| style="vertical-align:top;" |'''Oct 2014'''||Reached 10.300 pre-built debian unstable packages.
[https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/5048751 Upcoming patches to support systemd on hppa]
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| style="vertical-align:top;" |'''Sep 2014'''||Browsers will now automatically be transferred to this Wiki if one visits http://www.parisc-linux.org.
We now have more than 10.200 pre-built debian unstable packages.
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| style="vertical-align:top;" |'''Aug 2014'''||We now have more than 10.100 pre-built debian unstable packages.
Helge Deller now owns and maintains the parisc-linux domain.
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| style="vertical-align:top;" |'''Jul 2014'''||New [[Debian Ports Installation | Debian unstable installer images available]]. Reached more than 10.000 pre-built debian unstable packages.
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| style="vertical-align:top;" |'''Jun 2014'''||The A500-44 is up and running as additional debian buildd server at http://parisc.osuosl.org.
Kernel 3.15 is out.
Added a very fast 4-way 1GHz C8000 machine with 250GB SATA SSD drive as additional Debian buildd server (sibaris.parisc-linux.org), machine and hosting sponsored by [mailto:pannonmage@googlemail.com Bálint Sándor Németh]. 
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| style="vertical-align:top;" |'''May 2014'''||More than 9900 debian packages built.
Kernel 3.15 will be the most best kernel ever.
The A500 (mkhppa3) buildd which was sponsored and hosted by ESIEE sadly died.
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| style="vertical-align:top;" |'''Apr 2014'''||The PARISC boot loader palo is back in debian unstable.
More than 9750 debian packages built.
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| style="vertical-align:top;" |'''Mar 2014'''||The A500-44 which hosted our main webpage is being moved to OSUOSL.org.
More than 9500 debian packages built.
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| style="vertical-align:top;" |'''Feb 2014'''||The new parisc Wiki is now at http://parisc.wiki.kernel.org. Contents of the old Wiki at wiki.parisc-linux.org was moved and the webpage redirects here.
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| style="vertical-align:top;" |'''Jan 2014'''||Updated [[Debian_Ports_Installation|Debian unstable install instructions]].
More than [http://buildd.debian-ports.org/stats 8000 newly built native Debian packages] available.
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| style="vertical-align:top;" |'''Dec 2013'''||[http://unstable.buildd.net/index-hppa.html 5 buildd servers for debian unstable online].
The servers hpviz and rio including hosting are sponsored by Dave Land (http://landcomp.net).
Stable Debian kernel 3.12 available. 
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| style="vertical-align:top;" |'''Aug 2013'''||Linux kernel 3.11 supports C8000 workstation (SMP, serial port, FireGL card, BMC, ...)
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| style="vertical-align:top;" |'''Apr 2013'''||Website updated, added [[Debian_Ports_Installation|Debian ports installation instructions]] and updated [[TODO]] list.
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| style="vertical-align:top;" |'''Mar 2013'''||Debian 7.0 (wheezy) without HPPA.
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| style="vertical-align:top;" |'''Feb 2013'''||Many PA-RISC Linux kernel patches have been integrated into Kernel 3.8. Stability will improve even further with kernel 3.9.
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| style="vertical-align:top;" |'''Feb 2012'''||Website is back up! Work continues on the debian-ports support for HPPA.
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| style="vertical-align:top;" |'''Sep 2010'''||HPPA dropped as an official release architecture for squeeze.
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| style="vertical-align:top;" |'''Sep 2009'''||NPTL transition is ready, thanks to the efforts of Carlos!
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| style="vertical-align:top;" |'''Feb 2009'''||Debian 5.0!
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| style="vertical-align:top;" |'''Apr 2007'''||Debian 4.0!
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| style="vertical-align:top;" |'''Jul 2006'''||James fixes (mostly) parisc-linux on PA8800! w00t!
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| style="vertical-align:top;" |'''Mar 2006'''||Fixed stifb on 64-bit machines. X now works with a 64-bit kernel!
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| style="vertical-align:top;" |'''Dec 2005'''||Fixed framebuffer console on 32bit HCRX graphic cards
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| style="vertical-align:top;" |'''Dec 2005'''||PCMCIA support added (e.g. used in Tadpole PA-RISC laptops)
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| style="vertical-align:top;" |'''Jun 2005'''||Debian 3.1!
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| style="vertical-align:top;" |'''Mar 2005'''||The parisc-linux patch set is less than 200K for the first time ever! Thanks to willy for doing such a great job pushing patches upstream!
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| style="vertical-align:top;" |'''Jun&nbsp;2004&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;'''||Support for PA8800/zx1 committed!
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| style="vertical-align:top;" |'''1998-2000'''||[[PA-RISC_Linux_Project_History|How it started]]
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= PROJECT HISTORY =

[[File:Www_parisc-linux_org-front.jpg|thumb|400px|Front of http://parisc.parisc-linux.org]]
[[File:Www_parisc-linux_org-back.jpg|thumb|400px|Back of http://parisc.parisc-linux.org]]
[[File:Sibaris.jpg|thumb|400px|HP C8000 used as Debian buildd server sibaris.parisc-linux.org]]
[[File:Rp3410_panama_front.JPG|thumb|400px|HP rp3410 front - our panama buildd server since 2017]]
[[File:Rp3410_panama_back.JPG|thumb|400px|HP rp3410 back - our panama buildd server since 2017]]

; December 1, 2000  
: The PA-RISC web site has moved to www.parisc-linux.org domain. Besides the appearance of the Linuxcare penguin Lux (in gear suitable for working on the PA-RISC engine), the PA-RISC site is fresh with a content update, face lift and co-branding with HP.

; December 15, 1999
: The Puffin Group and Linuxcare join forces, providing us all with additional resources and backing to dedicate to the porting effort. In fact, we are now working even more closely with Hewlett-Packard. While we were in California getting all the details sorted out, a number of people posted to the mailing list with concerns that the project was dead. This couldn't be further from the truth. Martin Fink from HP posted the following message to help clear up the misunderstanding: http://puffin.external.hp.com/mailing-lists/parisc-linux/1999/12-Dec/0073.html.

; November 19, 1999
: Hewlett-Packard, in cooperation with The Puffin Group, has released the source code to their SOM linker product.

; August 16, 1999
: The source code repository is now [http://puffin.external.hp.com/lxr/source cross-referenced] online.

; July 6, 1999
: Philipp Rumpf gets interruptions working, you can now enter them and the system returns from them.

; June 26-27, 1999
: Matthew Wilcox and Thomas Bogendoerfer in cooperation with HP demonstrate the booting Linux kernel at LinuxTag '99 in Kaiserslautern, Germany.

; June 25, 1999
: Helge Deller boots the first time Linux on a 715/64 PA-RISC machine which promptly dies after displaying kernel version information. Much celebration.

; May 19-24, 1999
: The Puffin Group hosts Bird of Feather session at Linux Expo, and participates in HP's booth. Tremendous interest and support shown for the project.

; May 15, 1999
: HP, through the The Puffin Group, distributes A180C machines to developers.

; March 9, 1999
: HP releases first round of documentation on the basic boot up sequence and PDC interfaces. See the [/documentation/index.html Documentation] section on this page.

; March 1999
: Hewlett-Packard Formally Sponsors Project - At Linux World Expo on March 1st, HP officially announces its support and endorsement of the PARISC Linux project. They promised to provide marketing and technical resources to the project, and talks began towards releasing documentation and hardware through The Puffin Group.

: HP, in conjunction with The Puffin Group, releases documents - On March 9th, HP releases documentation regarding the basic bootup sequence and PDC interfaces. See the [/documentation/index.html Documentation] section.

; February 1999
: Establishing the Framework - Christopher Beard sets up the web pages and mailing lists, with Phil Schwan configuring the CVS repository. The web pages are then added to several Linux development sites, and there is a noticable increase in interest in the project.

: The Cross-Compiler - Paul Lahaie joins the project, working with Alex deVries on the cross-compiler, based on egcs 1.1.1 and the mkLinux patches.

: Boot Loader - Jason Eckhardt releases the first test boot image for bootstrapping, Alex packages the rpmboot package, so now you can boot ''something''.

; January 1999
: Getting Machines into the Hands of Developers - Neil Van Dyke offers up a machine on loan to the project, with Michael Fratoni of Boston assisting with shipping arrangements.

: Martin Petersen joins the development team, with limited access to several systems.

: Work continues on getting machines to people who need them, as well as getting the proper adapters for monitors and serial consoles.

; October 1998
: The PARISC Linux Project Officially Begins - Conceived by Christopher Beard and Alex deVries over lunch at the [http://linuxshowcase.org/ Atlanta Linux Showcase], with Travis Melhiser offering up a machine to be used for development.

: The Puffin Group Formally Sponsors the Project - The Puffin Group, a Linux development and consulting firm, formally sponsors the project providing server space and programming resources.