Hi Dennis, On Sun, 2026-03-22 at 12:54 -0400, Dennis Clarke wrote: > Actually all of Linux is now pushed off the table. Due to the decision > to remove support for these old DEC Alpha processors. With good reasons.
I'm aware of the removal and the discussion. However, there are plans to re-add support for non-BWX systems in the future. Maciej Rozycki wanted to work on it, although he is currently heavily time-constrained. > It runs OpenBSD just fine and I have seen no reason to think the OpenBSD > kernel folks have any issues with the strange Total Store Order byte > access problem. Either that or no one cares about the overhead needed. > > So until I have a newer unit on hand I will just be happy with OpenBSD. You might be able to run Linux in the future again on this machine. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
