still someone here ?

[Mark Wickens]

Greetings

Just chipping in to say I have several 3000 AXP systems if you need any testing done!

Kind regards, Mark

http://www.wickensonline.co.uk
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> On 7 Apr 2015, at 20:46, Maciej W. Rozycki <macro at linux-mips.org> wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
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