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as some copyright issues prevent us, check our <a href=policy.html>policy</a>

page for details. We are making our own efforts to keep this port modern,

which also includes many userland 64 bit problems which we have tracked down

and made fixes to.

and made fixes to. Many of the improvements mentioned below are not found

in NetBSD, but you should do your own research to decide which those are.

<p>

Initially the reason for existence of this port was to provide the OpenBSD

operating system to alpha users, i.e. no special effort was put in to develop

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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 led to:

<ul>

<li>A large-scale attack at fixing remaining 64-bit 'long' vs 'int'

problems in the entire userland source tree. Most of these

have been fixed, and new 64-bit problems are only rarely found.

<li>Adaption of the if_ed ethernet driver.

<li>Parsing of i386 MBR & disklabels.

<li>DDB (kernel debugger) (disassembler, tracebacks, single stepping).

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<li> PCI and ISA NE2000-compatible ethernet cards.

<li> SMC/WD 8003, 8013, and the SMC "Elite16" ISA ethernet boards.

<li> 3Com 3c503 ethernet cards.

<li> 3Com 3c5xx/3c9xx ethernet cards.

<li> Keyboard.

<li> PS/2-style mice.

<li> IDE controllers (including the built-in IDE controller on some machines).

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<li> ISA ns16x50-family serial port boards.

<li> ISA ns16x50 multi-port serial boards.

<li> Other NCR 53c8xx SCSI boards.

<li> Adaptec 2940 based scsi boards.

<li> The Adaptec 152* SCSI controlller ISA boards.

</ul>