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History and Status:

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The OpenBSD/alpha port was begun in the summer of 1996 by using ! code from the NetBSD/alpha port which was begun by Chris Demetriou <cgd@netbsd.org> in 1994. After the original OpenBSD port, some copyright issues prevented OpenBSD from tracking the NetBSD code. Regardless, work on the alpha port continued and many fixes were made. ! While we were making fixes, NetBSD continued to make improvements to ! the alpha port which we were unfortunately unable to use. Over time, because of a lack of programmer resources and the inability to use NetBSD code, hardware and software support became very outdated. This caused the 2.5 and 2.6 releases of alpha to have few kernel --- 12,33 ---- ! ! [OpenBSD]

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alpha

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History and Status:

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The OpenBSD/alpha port was begun in the summer of 1996 by using code ! from the NetBSD/alpha port which was begun by Chris Demetriou <cgd@netbsd.org> in 1994. After the original OpenBSD port, some copyright issues prevented OpenBSD from tracking the NetBSD code. Regardless, work on the alpha port continued and many fixes were made. ! While we were making fixes, NetBSD continued to make improvements to the ! alpha port which we were unfortunately unable to use. Over time, because of a lack of programmer resources and the inability to use NetBSD code, hardware and software support became very outdated. This caused the 2.5 and 2.6 releases of alpha to have few kernel *************** *** 36,47 **** that NetBSD changed the license on its alpha code so that there are no longer copyright issues has lead to an effort to bring the alpha port back up. (For details on why we were not able to keep tracking the ! NetBSD code, check our policy page.)

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Nate Binkert, Art Grabowski, Niklas Hallqvist and Eric Jackson, ! with the help of a few others, eventually brought the port in good ! shape again, and starting with the 2.9 release alpha is a ! major OpenBSD port again.

However, there is currently no maintainer for the alpha port. Technical discussion about the alpha port should be directed to policy page.)

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Nate Binkert, Art Grabowski, Niklas Hallqvist and Eric Jackson, with ! the help of a few others, eventually brought the port in good shape ! again, and starting with the 2.9 release alpha is a major OpenBSD port ! again.

However, there is currently no maintainer for the alpha port. Technical discussion about the alpha port should be directed to !

Projects (in no particular order):

Use the method that works best for you. !

Supported Hardware:

Because of the changes that are currently being made to alpha, the ! currently supported hardware is in flux. To the best of our ! knowledge, the following hardware is supported, but there might be ! occasional breakage on some models. Since there are many models and ! combinations that we have not tested, we would appreciate very much if ! you told us about things that work and do not work. To help us keep ! track of what hardware people use, please mail your dmesg to ! <dmesg@openbsd.org>. If there are ! things that do not work, please file a bug report using ! ! sendbug(1).

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Supported Platforms:


! It contains support for the on-board devices found on these machines, ! however due to lack of place there are only few other drivers. In ! particular, this floppy lacks cdrom support and won't allow you to ! install from cdrom media.

  • Floppy B:

    This 1.44MB floppy image supports the following alpha hardware:

    ! It contains support for the on-board devices found on these machines, ! however due to lack of place there are only few other drivers. In ! particular, this floppy lacks cdrom support and won't allow you to ! install from cdrom media.

    Use the method that works best for you. !

    Supported Hardware:

    Because of the changes that are currently being made to alpha, the ! currently supported hardware is in flux. To the best of our knowledge, ! the following hardware is supported, but there might be occasional ! breakage on some models. Since there are many models and combinations ! that we have not tested, we would appreciate very much if you told us ! about things that work and do not work. To help us keep track of what ! hardware people use, please mail your dmesg to ! <dmesg@openbsd.org>. If ! there are things that do not work, please file a bug report using ! sendbug(1).

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    Supported Platforms:

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  • API UP1000 machines and other EV6 machines using the Irongate chipset !
  • API UP1000 machines and other EV6 machines using the Irongate ! chipset
  • Digital Personal Workstation (Miata)
    ! Some of these machines are known not to work (random hangs or crashes). At the ! moment, there is no known method to detect which machines will run stably and ! which will not, apart from trying to install OpenBSD on them.
  • Digital Personal Workstation (Miata)
    ! Some of these machines are known not to work (random hangs or crashes). ! At the moment, there is no known method to detect which machines will ! run stably and which will not, apart from trying to install OpenBSD on ! them.