Wiki, bitrot, code and greetings!

[Pekka Enberg]

Hello,

On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Joel Heikkila <jjheik at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

I have imported the CVS tree at:

https://github.com/penberg/linux/commits/vax/historic

It has some minor fixes to get basic Kbuild infrastructure working
again but it obviously does not even compile...

I also have an initial git tree for an "asm-generic" based port:

https://github.com/penberg/linux/commits/vax/asm-generic

Both trees are also up at kernel.org whenever its mirroring catches up:

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/penberg/linux.git

On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Joel Heikkila <jjheik at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Many of us no longer have the hardware which is why I have some
initial hacks for VAX support in QEMU:

https://github.com/penberg/QEMU/commits/target/vax

and for the more adventurous type who like reinventing the wheel,
initial LLVM-based VAX emulator (similar to libcpu architecture):

https://github.com/penberg/uvm

                                Pekka