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  <h3><strong>History and Status:</strong></h3>
  <p>
- The alpha port was derived from the NetBSD/alpha port.  The main difference
+ The alpha port was derived from, and still tracks, the NetBSD/alpha port
- is that the OpenBSD port is self-hosting, i.e. all the tools needed to build a
+ written by Chris Demetriou <cgd@netbsd.org>.  Initially the reason for
- full system is included in the tree.  Currently
+ existence of this port was to provide the OpenBSD operating system to alpha
- <a href="http://www.appli.se/niklas/">Niklas Hallqvist</a>
+ users, i.e. no special effort was put in to develop the port in the machine
- <a href=mailto:niklas@openbsd.org>&lt;niklas@openbsd.org&gt;</a> is
+ dependent parts.  The main thing that got done was to make the port
- maintaining the port.
+ self-hosting, i.e. ensuring that all the tools needed to build a full system
+ was included in the tree, as well as updated with the changes Chris
+ distributed in a separate alpha toolchain package.
+ Today a lot more developers have got themselves alpha machines and we are
+ seeing interest in a more active port.  This fact has so far only led to the
+ adaption of the if_ed ethernet driver to be usable by the
+ alpha port, but there is ongoing work on ISA DMA, floppy, IDE & ATAPI support.
+ So far <a href="http://www.appli.se/niklas/">Niklas Hallqvist</a>
+ <a href=mailto:niklas@openbsd.org>&lt;niklas@openbsd.org&gt;</a> has been
+ keeping the port alive, but with the larger developer community coming up
+ this will hopefully be a more distributively (and better) maintained port.
  </p>
  <h3><strong>Projects (in no particular order):</strong></h3>
  <ul>
- <li>Add ISA DMA support (needed for floppies & wss).
+ <li>ISA DMA support (needed for floppy support among other stuff).
- <li>Add floppy support.
+ <li>Floppy support.
- <li>Add WSS audio support.
+ <li>IDE/ATAPI support.
  <li>DDB support.
  <li>ELF switchover (automatically brings us shared libraries).
  </ul>
+ <h3><strong>Snapshots</strong></h3>
  <p>
- Thomas Graichen <a
+ OpenBSD/alpha has not yet seen a proper release, but Thomas Graichen
- href=mailto:graichen@openbsd.org>&lt;graichen@openbsd.org&gt;</a>
+ <a href=mailto:graichen@openbsd.org>&lt;graichen@openbsd.org&gt;</a>
- creates OpenBSD/alpha snapshots from time to time. You may find them
+ has been creating OpenBSD/alpha snapshots from time to time. You may find them
- on <a href=ftp.html>the usual OpenBSD ftp servers</a>.
+ on <a href=ftp.html>the usual OpenBSD ftp servers</a>.  Please talk to Thomas
+ if you are wondering over installation issues.
  </p>
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