Actually, I mentioned this to some gentoo-alpha developers on irc and they
said that we may need libunwind for future x-servers.  Perhaps there will
be others interested.  Not sure how much time I'll have to spend on this
realistically, so it could be a while yet and I have no idea what timeline
they are thinking about for supporting future x-servers.

Cheers!


On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 6:22 AM, Tommi Rantala <[email protected]> wrote:

> 2013/2/19 Eric Nichols <[email protected]>:
> > I notice there are quite a few supported architectures in this project,
> but
> > I do not see Alpha.  Any chance of support being added at some point?
> >
> > I have a couple of AlphaServers which I run linux on, and this package
> has
> > come up as a dependency a couple times, and naturally it doesn't work.
>
> Hi Eric,
>
> AFAIK nobody is working on adding alpha support, so do not expect to
> see it any time soon.
>
> It is not impossibly hard to add rudimentary support for new
> architectures, but it does take some time to delve into the details
> how backtracing works on a given arch.
>
> When it comes to Alpha, it's helpful that qemu seems to have alpha
> support, so access to physical machine would not even be strictly
> required.
>
> Tommi
>
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