Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: add linux-alpha archives to lore.kernel.org? | From | John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <> | Date | Tue, 6 Jul 2021 19:07:09 +0200 |
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Hi Bjorn!
On 7/6/21 6:12 PM, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > Is there any interest in adding linux-alpha archives to > lore.kernel.org? See https://korg.docs.kernel.org/lore.html for > details. > > I don't know whether alpha is still viable. Krzysztof has been > struggling to get a working alpha qemu and userspace working to do > boot testing of some PCI-related changes, and it's pretty hard. But > maybe it's at least of historical interest, since alpha was one of the > first non-x86 ports?
If Krzysztof has any patches for testing available, I'm happy to give those a spin on any of my Alphas. I have various AlphaStations available (233, 433au, XP1000 as well as a DS-20E and an ES-40).
> Cc'd you, Eric, since you've done recent alpha fixes and apparently > have a bootable qemu-system-alpha: > https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-alpha/msg07206.html
FWIW, I haven't had any issues installing Debian unstable inside qemu-system-alpha with the images I am regularly creating for Debian Ports:
> https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2021-06-09/
Let me know if you run into any problems.
Thanks, Adrian
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