still someone here ?

[Matt Turner]

On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 4:10 PM, Davis Johnson <davis at frizzen.com> wrote:
> On 4/7/2015 3:46 PM, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>
> That is good to hear. I stopped paying quite so close attention back when
> there was discussion of dropping support for EV4 & EV45, which covers all my
> Alphas. The AS500 still gets fired up to check the portability of
> application source.
>
> Did anybody ever get a patch for that weird PCMCIA bridge mucking up DMA on
> the Alphabook? Rumor has it that a patch existed for older kernels but I
> never found it...

I'm not aware of anyone on this list ever owning one. Do you?