future for FBSD on alpha

[Floor Terra]

On Thu, 31 Jul 2008, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:

> I wonder how many people run FBSD on alpha.
> According to bsdstats.org very few - less than 5 boxes.
> There must be more.
>
I run FreeBSD on an Alpha. But because of the power requirements of
keeping the machine running, its rarely powered on. So you can count me
as an inactive user.

It would be a shame to see an architecture dropped from support
though....

> Is there a way to find out how many people are on this list?
> Is it a good indicator?
>
> I, for one, am very keen to have some level of support
> for FBSD on alpha, even at 6-stable branch. However,
> if the actual usage is indeed very small, it must be expected
> that ports maintainers will stop supporting alpha soon.
>
> I'm trying to find out if there are people on this list, who,
> like myself, are keen to see FBSD supported on alpha
> for say 1-3 more years. If yes, we might be able to lobby
> ports maintainers not to drop support for alpha ports.
>
> I'm thinking at the moment about gcc42, firefox3, lapack, lapack95,
> blas.
>
> many thanks
> anton
>
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