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1.1       deraadt    15: <h2>OpenBSD/alpha</h2>
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                     18: <h3><strong>History and Status:</strong></h3>
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1.12      niklas     21: The alpha port was derived from, and still tracks, the NetBSD/alpha port
1.14      niklas     22: written by Chris Demetriou <cgd@netbsd.org>.  However this tracking is jumpy
                     23: at best, don't expect the latest NetBSD changes to be in our tree at any
                     24: given time, the merges are being done when time allows.
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                     26: Initially the reason for existence of this port was to provide the OpenBSD
                     27: operating system to alpha users, i.e. no special effort was put in to develop
                     28: the port in the machine dependent parts.  The main thing that got done was to
                     29: make the port self-hosting, i.e. ensuring that all the tools needed to build a
                     30: full system was included in the tree, as well as updated with the changes Chris
1.12      niklas     31: distributed in a separate alpha toolchain package.
1.13      niklas     32: <p>
1.12      niklas     33: Today a lot more developers have got themselves alpha machines and we are
                     34: seeing interest in a more active port.  This fact has so far only led to the
                     35: adaption of the if_ed ethernet driver to be usable by the
                     36: alpha port, but there is ongoing work on ISA DMA, floppy, IDE & ATAPI support.
1.13      niklas     37: <p>
1.12      niklas     38: So far <a href="http://www.appli.se/niklas/">Niklas Hallqvist</a>
                     39: <a href=mailto:niklas@openbsd.org>&lt;niklas@openbsd.org&gt;</a> has been
                     40: keeping the port alive, but with the larger developer community coming up
                     41: this will hopefully be a more distributively (and better) maintained port.
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1.4       niklas     44: <h3><strong>Projects (in no particular order):</strong></h3>
                     45: <ul>
1.12      niklas     46: <li>ISA DMA support (needed for floppy support among other stuff).
                     47: <li>Floppy support.
                     48: <li>IDE/ATAPI support.
1.7       niklas     49: <li>DDB support.
1.11      niklas     50: <li>ELF switchover (automatically brings us shared libraries).
1.4       niklas     51: </ul>
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1.15    ! niklas     53: <h3><strong>Snapshots:</strong></h3>
1.9       graichen   54: <p>
1.12      niklas     55: OpenBSD/alpha has not yet seen a proper release, but Thomas Graichen
                     56: <a href=mailto:graichen@openbsd.org>&lt;graichen@openbsd.org&gt;</a>
                     57: has been creating OpenBSD/alpha snapshots from time to time. You may find them
                     58: on <a href=ftp.html>the usual OpenBSD ftp servers</a>.  Please talk to Thomas
                     59: if you are wondering over installation issues.
1.9       graichen   60: </p>
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