Hi all,

Does this hint at the fact that maybe we don't need to have support for
Alpha anymore? If we can't find documentation I feel like it's unlikely
anyone is using this.

I hate to bring this us again, but dropping support for uncommon ISAs would
provide a lot of benefits including:
- Simplifying code
- Removing untested and/or dead code

And, most importantly, it would prevent people from doing inappropriate
research. There were recently some questions on gem5-users or stack
overflow asking for help getting an ancient Alpha disk image with Parsec on
it running. There's no way it's appropriate to use a disk image, kernel
image, and benchmarks compiled ~10 years ago for research today.

<Ducks and covers>,

Jason

On Tue, Dec 17, 2019 at 9:21 AM Steve Reinhardt <[email protected]> wrote:

> If I have anything it's on the hard drive of a machine that needs some work
> before it will even boot, sorry...
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 11:19 PM Gabe Black <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Hey, does anybody have some documentation tucked away somewhere which
> > documents the Alpha ABI? I don't seem to have that anywhere, and the
> > internet isn't being very helpful.
> >
> > Gabe
> >
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