Re: Does the Alpha port require processors with the BW extension?

Suzuran Majere <[email protected]> Mon, 7 Jul 2025 11:58:23 -0500

Newsgroups	gmane.os.netbsd.ports.alpha
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> On Jul 7, 2025, at 11:54 AM, Jonathan A. Kollasch <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On Mon, Jul 07, 2025 at 11:23:33AM -0500, Suzuran Majere wrote:
>> I attempted to bring up NetBSD 10.1 on an Alphaserver 1000 5/300, but it failed immediately after kernel start. The 5/300 has a 21164 (no A), meaning it does not have BWX. I know that Linux recently removed support for processors without BWX, has NetBSD done the same?
>> 
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> We still support non-BWX Alpha CPUs.  Likely it is something else that's
> the problem.

OK. The same machine is able to boot and run Tru64 and OpenBSD without issue, so I wanted to make sure it wasn’t some intentional limitation or known thing before I spend a bunch of time debugging.