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Here is a list of what the First Team had managed to accomplish on PA/Linux:

• Toolchain compile scripts
• PS/2 keyboard driver
• Harmony Sound driver
• Lynx browser
• Global Purpose Mouse driver
• Standard Text Interface handling for the B132
• Debian HPPA package installations
  • Emacs 20.7
  • Apache
• Debian Ftp client and server packages created and published

• February 2001
  • 26 - Installation of tex, ed, libc6, booting the SMP kernel on the A500-A5X and installing the mouse
  • 16 - Try to get strace working on the A500-A5X and debugging 712 start_kernel
  • 15 - Display of the cursor by Xavier:COMMITTED
  • 13 - First try to merge between i386 and hppa ps2 driver: FAILED
  • 6 - Feedback from the Linux Expo Paris
• January 2001
  • 22 - Now possible to play mp3 files and 742 vme boot!
  • 18 - Installation of our own subnet
  • 16 - Apache compiled and installed on the 712
  • 1 - Happy New Year!! Now it's time to get some rest...
• December 2000
  • 25 - Cool! Loads of gifts & treats!! Merry Christmas everyone!
  • 14 - Defeated the STI at last!
  • 12 - French version of the PA/Linux in Paris website published
  • 11 - Good News & Old Stuff
    • Operating B132
    • Lynx recompiled
  • 8 - Hard Drive configuration
  • 7 - Mission: victory on the B132
    • HDs rebuilt
    • B132 booting
    • GPM 1.19.3 compiled and executed on the 712
  • 6 - Continuing on our new installation and kernel version
    • New Kernel compiled & new config recipe
    • Precise examination of the boot process to obtain a File System
• November 2000
  • 29 - Tidying up
    • Server reinstall & compile
    • Studying porting differences between 712s and B132s
  • 28 - Focusing on the mouse
    • Mouse study
    • Studying the possibility of doing the mouse driver
  • 27 - Keyboard leds
    • Studying led management
    • Keyboard OK
  • 14 - Bad day!
    • Recompiling does not work
  • 7 - More and more work to handle!
    • Lynx compiled on HP712
    • New Debian PC to work on porting
    • Launching STI
    • Problems with LIBRARY_PATH
• October 2000
  • 26 - New operating PS/2 Keyboard driver installed.
  • 25 - Project history publication.
  • 24 - New installations and low-level work:
    • Debian package installation
    • Keyboard and soundchip problems
  • 23 - Internal problems dealt with. Dual screen configuration.
  • 20 - File System generated and published on the website
  • 19 - Done with STI (for the moment), FS Root creation and network support setup.
  • 17 - Changes in STI so bin, gcc and kernel recompiled
  • 16 - So far, so good
    • The test program works OK
    • Read-only problem resolved for NFS
  • 12 - Progress in compiling and binaries:
    • gmake v3.79 installation
    • Successful glibc compile and installation
    • Cross-compile and Linux compile operational on a simple 'Hello World'-type test program
    • Automatic update program
    • Problems with scanf on test programs: execution problems
    • Website update (v2.1)
  • 10 - Loads of new stuff!
    • Server reinstall
    • Version 2.0 of the website online
    • Toolchain docs updated
    • Automatic scripts coding
      (The Team)
  • 4 - First website update: howto pages added. (Malek, Thomas)
  • 3 - A bunch of setup problems, but...
    • Version 1.0 of the website is online. (Malek, Thomas)
    • Problems with the makefile and include files in hppa_linux
• September 2000
  • 29 - Gcc and Linux_Palo are compiled. Successful NFSroot launch but in read-only mode. (Xavier, Thomas)
  • 21 - Network setup: Linux PC and two HP 712 workstations. Kernel download and bootp testing. (The Team)
  • 12 - First meeting with Thierry Simonnet. Briefing on the different steps of the project: setup, guide, development. (The Team)