[gentoo-dev] Status of gentoo on Alpha

[gentoo-dev] Status of gentoo on Alpha

[Christian Plessl]

Hi everybody

I'm thinking of installing gentoo on a DEC Alphaworkstation. Does anybody 
have details on the current status of gentoo von Alpha CPUs?

Best regards,
 Christian

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Christian Plessl <plessl@tik.ee.ethz.ch>
Computer Engineering and Networks Lab, ETH Zurich, Switzerland


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Re: [gentoo-dev] Status of gentoo on Alpha

[Timothy Bissell]

I can't say much about the status, but it is at least working for me. I
have gentoo running an alphaserver 5305 (EV56). Seems to run
beautifully, I'm using a vanilla SMP kernel though, I haven't tried the
gentoo sources yet. I didn't even have much trouble with the Mylex raid
card.

Some of the goodies in portage are masked on the alpha architecture
though. The only thing I've had to unmask so far was openldap, and that
went in nice and easy.

As a side note, should I simply add a bugzilla entry for builds I find
that work on this machine?

On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 10:45, Christian Plessl wrote:
> Hi everybody
> 
> I'm thinking of installing gentoo on a DEC Alphaworkstation. Does anybody 
> have details on the current status of gentoo von Alpha CPUs?
> 
> Best regards,
>  Christian

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Timothy Bissell <damaen@rochester.rr.com>


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Re: [gentoo-dev] Status of gentoo on Alpha

[Aron Griffis]

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Timothy Bissell wrote:	[Mon Jan 27 2003, 10:39:05PM EST]
> I can't say much about the status, but it is at least working for me. I
> have gentoo running an alphaserver 5305 (EV56). Seems to run
> beautifully, I'm using a vanilla SMP kernel though, I haven't tried the
> gentoo sources yet. I didn't even have much trouble with the Mylex raid
> card.

You should try alpha-sources instead of gentoo-sources.

> Some of the goodies in portage are masked on the alpha architecture
> though. The only thing I've had to unmask so far was openldap, and that
> went in nice and easy.
> 
> As a side note, should I simply add a bugzilla entry for builds I find
> that work on this machine?

Yes please.  We'll work on unmasking them as we learn about them, and
the best way to do that is via bugzilla.

Aron

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