still someone here ?

[Maciej W. Rozycki]

On Tue, 7 Apr 2015, Michael Cree wrote:

> > Indeed. Unfortunately, since major upstream source (glibc, kernel) 
> > gave up on Alpha, even I threw away my machines :-/
> 
> Kernel at 3.18 is pretty much up to date on Alpha.  Glibc at 2.19
> is working well on Alpha.

 Both components keep being actively maintained as far as the Alpha port 
is concerned, often by the same people, although at the hobbyist rather 
than commercial level of course.  That in particular means the usual 
quality standards have to be met, however fewer resources are available 
and it often takes more time for things to propagate or for regressions to 
be addressed.

 Here's a recent commit from glibc:

commit cc47c824769425834518e2b8ea89997455d86ca5
Author: Richard Henderson <rth at twiddle.net>
Date:   Mon Apr 6 10:36:44 2015 -0700

    alpha: Unconditionally include dl-sysdep.h in sysdep.h

    Fixes a -Wundef error wrt RTLD_PRIVATE_ERRNO.

 Myself I still mean to complete that DEC 3000 AXP port sometime, although 
I have no schedule set for this task.  At least the TURBOchannel subsystem 
is now fully portable and all the option card drivers we have should work 
right away or with minor tweaks only (MMIO barriers still need a proper 
cross-platform internal API to have been implemented) when the port is 
complete as they have already been verified with the VAX port.

  Maciej