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OpenBSD/alpha

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History and Status:

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History and Status:

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-The alpha port was derived from the NetBSD/alpha port written by Chris -Demetriou <cgd@netbsd.org>. Unfortunately we cannot track it closely -anymore as some copyright issues prevent us, check our -policy page for details. -There have been a few efforts to keep this port modern, -which also includes many userland 64 bit problems which we have tracked down -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. -

-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 -the port in the machine dependent parts. The main thing that got done was to -ensure 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, more developers have alpha machines, and we are seeing interest in -a more active port, but there still is very little active development going -on. This fact has so far led to: +

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of a lack of programmer resources and the inability to use +NetBSD code, hardware and software support became very outdated.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 +enhancements. As a result of its becoming so stale, alpha was not +included in the 2.7 release.

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Recently, there has been a great deal of interest in bringing the +port up to date. This coupled with the fact 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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There is currently no maintainer for the alpha port. Technical +discussion about the alpha port should be directed to <alpha@openbsd.org>. If you +are at all interested in development of the alpha port, please send +inquiries to this address. If you are interested in the job of alpha +port maintainer, help out the project for a while and step up to the +job.

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Projects (in no particular order): +

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Projects (in no particular order):

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-So far Niklas Hallqvist -<niklas@openbsd.org> has been -trying to keep the port alive, but despite more people having alpha, -the port is barely alive and not too actively maintained. -

Supported Hardware:

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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 still supported, but this could +change at any time.

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