Linux/MIPS Ticker

01-Feb-98

First commercial Linux/MIPS based product accounced.

26-Jan-98

One more timewarp in this list because the maintainer is lazy^H^H^H^H buzy coding. The driver for the NCR53c8xx has been modified and is now successfully tested with several machines, most notable the SNI RM200. Even better, the initial version seems to be reliable.

Already sometime ago Thomas Bogendörfer implemeneted the necessary changes to the NCR53C9x driver aka ESP driver, so there is now SCSI support for the builtin hostadapters in the Mips Magnum M700, Olivetti M700-10 and Acer PICA.

28-Nov-97

First public release of X11 client binaries.

30-Aug-97

Duh, time warp in this page once again. Alot has happend in the meantime and the maintainer of this pages is a lazy person that rather prefers to code and hack than write docs...

SGI now has it's own Linux/MIPS server reachable as HTTP://www.linux.sgi.com. Lots of SGI specific information and many link. The server is also reachable under ftp.linux.sgi.com. Additional to binaries, sources and docs specific to Silicon Graphic machines this server also has all the other Linux/MIPS stuff in stock. Only available on this server is the developers' cvs archive for download. Sorry, no anonymous CVS yet.

Silicon Graphics has supports some of the Linux key developers' work on Linux/MIPS by hardware. As a result the work is now advancing faster and Ralf is no longer alone the workhorse ...

Already available since some time the Indy port is now in the standard kernel source tree.

Long missing, but finally there: Thomas Bogendoerfer contributed patches to the NCR53C9x driver for Mips Magnum 4000, Olivetti M700 and Acer PICA.

Many more packages of a RedHat port to MIPS are now available for ftp download. Installing is still more a thing for experts ... but we're working on it!

Eeecmacs lovers will be pleased to hear that this FAQ has been edited by Emacs running on a Linux/MIPS machine.

6-May-97

David Monro releases version 1.01 of bfsd. bfsd is a daemon that can be used to boot the machines built by Mips Computersystems, Inc. over a network.

10-Jun-96

Release of Linux/MIPS kernel 2.0.4. This release features a partially rewritten signal handler that should match POSIX.1.

3-Jun-96

First release of shared libraries for Linux/MIPS based on GNU libc snapshot 960619.
Release of Linux/MIPS kernel 2.0.1

25-May-96

David S. Miller starts working on SGI support at Silicon Graphics.

20-May-96

Release 1.3.98 of the kernel adds support for the SNI RM200 PCI.

27-Mar-96

Linux/MIPS works as NFS server.
The IDE CD driver now also supports Linux/MIPS.

24-Mar-96

Added reference to literature available online form SGI to the FAQ

23-Mar-96

New chapter in the FAQ about the ARC standard.

27-Jan-96

Release of Milo 0.26 and a kernel patch to use it. This release passes parameters in a completly different way to the kernel that makes porting Linux/MIPS to another architecture a lot easier.

24-Jan-96

Release of crosscoompiler binaries based on the FSF's Binutils version 2.6. This release brings lots of new features and many bugfixes.

21-Jan-96

Warner Losh started working on a port of Linux/MIPS to Deskstation rPC44.

20-Jan-96

Linux/MIPS kernel updated to version 1.3.58.
Patch gcc-2.7.2-1.diffs.gz has been released.
Patch binutils-2.6-1.diffs.gz has been released. This patch contains lots of bugfixes. The Linux kernel Makefiles will automatically detect whether Binutils 2.6 or an older version is installed and use the new features resulting in a much smaller kernel executable which is especially useful for bootdisks.

15-Jan-96

Release of a complete root and /usr filesystem that can be NFS mounted to use a Linux/MIPS system as a diskless client. A native development kit based on GCC 2.7.2, Binutils 2.6 and GNU libc snapshot 951218 is included as well as many of the standard utilities.

25-Dec-95

Linux/MIPS boots of a NFS filesystem as a diskless client. This also means that the rest of Linux/MIPS networking is operational now.

7-Jan-95

Soft-N-Hard GMBH and SNI sign a contract. SNI will loan a RM200 to Soft-N-Hard for porting Linux/MIPS to it.

22-Sep-95

The Linux/MIPS FTP archive and mailing list have been moved to FNET.FR. (There are many others news I currently have no time to document)

18-Jul-95

New crossdevelopment tools released. GCC-2.6.3-2 and Binutils-2.5.2-2 for Linux/i386 need kernels with ELF support and libc-5.0.9 installed. The new crossdev tools are required for Linux/MIPS kernels above 1.2.9. A.out versions of the crossdev tools will follow soon.

14-Jul-95

We have a working shell!

12-Jul-95

Patches 2.6.3-2 for Linux/MIPS GCC released. This compiler better complies to the MIPS standard of symbol names.

10-Jul-95

Linux/MIPS kernel 1.2.9 released.

9-Jun-95

Milo 0.24 released. This version features improved machine type detection and many cleanup's and bugfixes.

24-May-95

Linux/MIPS kernel 1.2.8 released. This version features many bugfixes and has the Magnum 4000 specific changes from Linux-1.2.7 integrated.
Milo 0.23 released. This version features built-in support for Olivetti M700 machines. Milo is now split into two binaries: A simple bootloader and a standalone debugger/monitor with boot capability.

23-5-95

Linux/MIPS kernel 1.2.7 on Olivetti M700 mounts root file system.

22-May-95

Linux/MIPS kernel 1.2.7 on Mips Magnum 4000 mounts root file system.
Added NEC RiscStation and RiscServer to target list.
Milo 0.22 successfully tested on NEC RiscStation and RiscServer.

18-May-95

Linux/MIPS kernel 1.2.7 released. This release features initial Magnum 4000 support and tons of bugfixes.

12-May-95

Milo 0.22 released. This version contains some cleanup's and several bugfixes.

5-May-95

The Linux/MIPS archive is now also available from ftp.mcc.ac.uk:/pub/linux/MIPS.

3-May-95

Milo 0.21 released. This version features more built-in
debugger/monitor commands and contains some important bug fixes.

30-Apr-95

Milo 0.20 released. This version features a built-in debugger/monitor and a lot of new library functions.
Port to Olivetti M700 started.

26-Apr-95

Linux/MIPS kernel 1.2.6 released.

13-Apr-95

Milo 0.19 released. This version includes some minor fixes plus initial support for kernels in ELF format.

13-Apr-95

Milo 0.18b released.

27-Mar-95

Linux/MIPS kernel 1.2.2 released. Kernel now mounts its root file system.

22-Mar-95

Milo 0.18 released.
This version includes support for Deskstation rPC44 systems.
Port to DeskStation rPC44 started.

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Last changed 26-Jan-97 Ralf Bächle