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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><niklas@openbsd.org></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>
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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>
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1.12 niklas 55: OpenBSD/alpha has not yet seen a proper release, but Thomas Graichen
56: <a href=mailto:graichen@openbsd.org><graichen@openbsd.org></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.
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