HEADSUP: Alpha support is being retired in 7.0
ulrich.ulrich at alumni.ethz.ch
ulrich.ulrich at alumni.ethz.ch
Fri May 12 09:36:45 UTC 2006
Hi folks,
a couple of weeks ago a professional FreeBSD supporter managed to bring my
PWS500a up to work with 4.11 after many failing attempts by myself. Some of
you may remember that I posted a few questions about this machine to this
list. Since then I'm using the machine as server and I'm very happy with it.
Of course, I regret that the Alpha branch is not continued in FreeBSD
development because I intend to use this and some other Alpha boxes that I
plan to buy for many years. I like the Alpha architecture and I got the
impression that most of the higher level problems like seg-faults in Mozilla
on Alpha are caused by dirty programming techniques or bugs in the C
compiler related to 64 Bit addressing. Cleaning up such problems would
result in better code for the other architectures also.
Nevertheless: Thank you very much for FreeBSD/Alpha so far!
Ulrich
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