Fwd: Re: Alpha library code releases?

[Oliver Falk]

That is really bad news :-(

-of



poly-p man wrote:
> Got bored today... bad news unfortunately.. :(
> 
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> Subject: Re: Alpha library code releases?
> Date: Friday 10 April 2009
> From: Linda Knippers <linda.knippers at hp.com>
> To: "poly-p man" <polypolyman at ibiblio.org>
> 
> Hi Matthew,
> 
> Thank you for your interest.  At this point there is no plan to
> release any of this compiler or tool chain technology.  Its not
> that there isn't interest at the engineering level, but open
> sourcing technology is a pretty time intensive activity involving
> corporate IP lawyers and multiple business units.  I've floated the
> idea around but for it to really go anywhere, I need an executive
> willing to sponsor the activity and haven't had much luck there.
> 
> I'm sorry the news isn't better.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> -- ljk
> 
> poly-p man wrote:
>> Hi Linda,
>>
>> While HP no longer officially sells Alpha-based systems, there are quite 
> a 
>> few of us enthusiasts of the architecture. I run and I know several 
> other 
>> people who run the Linux operating system on our Alphas. Previously, 
>> Compaq has provided a few tools for Alpha Linux that, while 
>> unmaintained at this point, still are valuable (and in tests far 
> outperform 
>> the gnu equivalents of today). I'd like to see these tools open-sourced 
> so 
>> that the community can better make use of them.
>>
>> Specifically, the tools I am looking for include the Alpha-Optimized C, 
>> C++ and FORTRAN compilers, libots, libcpml, libcxml and ladebug.
>>
>> Are there current plans to release these tools as open-source? 
> Currently, 
>> support is slowly being dropped or slowly dying away for the Alpha 
>> architecture in tools such as GNU libc and the compiler collection. 
> With 
>> these tools, great advancements could be made in the state or Alpha 
>> open-source, and this architecture could live on for hobbyists for more 
>> years to come.
>>
>> Do you know of plans to release these, or can you direct me to 
> someone 
>> who might know?
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> Matthew "poly-p man" Kern
> 
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