Re: still someone here ?
Matt Turner <[email protected]> Tue, 7 Apr 2015 16:24:38 -0700
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On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 4:10 PM, Davis Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > On 4/7/2015 3:46 PM, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: >> >> Both components keep being actively maintained as far as the Alpha port is >> concerned, often by the same people, although at the hobbyist rather than >> commercial level of course. That in particular means the usual quality >> standards have to be met, however fewer resources are available and it often >> takes more time for things to propagate or for regressions to be addressed. > > That is good to hear. I stopped paying quite so close attention back when > there was discussion of dropping support for EV4 & EV45, which covers all my > Alphas. The AS500 still gets fired up to check the portability of > application source. > > Did anybody ever get a patch for that weird PCMCIA bridge mucking up DMA on > the Alphabook? Rumor has it that a patch existed for older kernels but I > never found it... I'm not aware of anyone on this list ever owning one. Do you?