November 2012 - Vax-linux

Wiki, bitrot, code and greetings!
by Joel Heikkila 08 Dez '12

08 Dez '12

Hi all, A few points, questions and so on. First of all, it's exciting to see some new life to this project in the last year! I've noticed the wiki isn't configured still, which is a bit of a hindrance for starting to document things. The repository mentioned by Maciej in the Dec 2011 message > Anyway, the derivative has been made by taking a LMO kernel (i.e. one > from linux-mips.org) and applying VAX-specific bits from Jan-Benedict's > repository that used to live at: > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbglaw/vax-linux.git > > and was last updated up to 2.6.23-rc4 according to my most recent daily > snapshot. I have no idea if the repository has been restored after the > kernel.org outage earlier this year. And I don't really know what the > status of the kernel port is as Jan-Benedict has been busy and distracted > with some more important matters recently. I have cc-ed him in case > (hope?) he has anything to add. is still down and presumably will continue to be. For that matter, ftp.linux-mips.org with Maciej's RPMs is also down. Perhaps related to their late Sept. move to a new host? The only code I can find is on the SourceForge site in the CVS -- untouched since ~2005? Hosting some repositories on vax-linux.org seems natural. Speaking of the SourceForge site, does anyone subscribed have write access to it? Changing it to a redirect to vax-linux.org would be useful, as a search on Google for "vax linux" current returns the SF site and the vax-linux.org site first and second, respectively. The two sites look fairly similar so it's confusing for someone searching those terms to determine which is the right place. (I had sent a couple emails and registration requests to the pergamentum mailing list before I realized this one existed.) As for me, well, I'm a fan of the VAX but I don't currently have any hardware, so my contributions will have to be limited to what can be done under SIMH, as a pair of eyes and hands for poking code, writing docs and as moral support. Regards, Joel

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Linux/VAX boot protocol
by Pekka Enberg 04 Dez '12

04 Dez '12

Hello, Where can I find documentation on Linux/VAX boot protocol? The vmlinux images in vaxroot package: http://linux-vax.sourceforge.net/download/README.vaxroot-20010920 seem to have the following structure: +------------------+ 0x0000 | Padding | +------------------+ 0x0200 | Jump instruction | | Command line | +------------------+ 0x0300 | Kernel code | The jump instruction points to 0x104 so I assume the first 0x200 bytes are simply discarded? Pekka

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RE: Linux/VAX boot protocol
by arcarlini＠iee.org 28 Nov '12

28 Nov '12

Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote: > THe last one shown when attempting to access that file I get ... > > http://www.tmk.com/ftp/TMK-SOFTWARE/MOP-SERVER/MOPV50.PS > > Not Found > >The requested URL /ftp/TMK-SOFTWARE/MOP-SERVER/MOPV50.PS was not found >on this server. > I am trying to contact "Kennedy, Terence terry(a)tmk.com" as he is the >domain contact & see if this is an oversite or the data is just gone . There's a name from the past - it's been a long, long time since I've seen him contribute to comp.os.vms! The PDF I have is less than 280K so I can just email to whoever can get it on the net. (I'm sure it's in the 3 DVDs of stuff I sent to Manx, but I don't see it there right now). Antonio arcarlini(a)iee.org

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