OpenBSD's Alpha Support In Trouble

Nimrangul writes "Hours ago Theo de Raadt put out a call for an Alpha CS20, because as of last night OpenBSD no longer has one. The CS20 that died was a build machine and without it further support for the Alpha platform would be nearly impossible. If you have a C320 or other 1U Alpha machine that you would be willing to donate to the project, please respond to the discussion on the misc mailing list."

Comments

Heh

[Otter]

In the next message, Matt R offers to buy one on EBay but it looks like he got sniped. (BTW, "current high bidder" has the best EBay nick I've ever seen.)

I wish them luck, but this has to give pause to anyone who wants to place a heavy bet on the continued availability of OpenBSD/Alpha -- if it can get wiped out because they can't get a specific piece of legacy hardware to fit Theo's rack!

Re:Get the cross compiling from NetBSD

[Anonymous Coward]

Cross-platform compiling does not ensure that the software actually works.

If you want to be sure something works properly you have to have the hardware it is supposed to be working on and test to see if it works on it.

NetBSD's setup does not actually make sure everything works, it makes sure it compiles under fake hardware.

That's how NetBSD's support for some platforms got so bad.

Re:Offtopic: Keyboard in Theo's rack.

[Nimrangul]

You mean one of these?

You can get one for 54.95 $ from Fentek Industries, Inc. 470 S. Main Street, Suite G, Post Office Box 2278, Cottonwood, Arizona, 86326 USA. Shipping and handeling extra of course, state taxes may apply, duty fees may apply, void in Quebec and Tennessee.

They actually have a few of them, check it out. And next time, use google for the words "mini keyboard".