From: Felix Zielcke <fzielcke@z-51.de>
To: The development of GNU GRUB <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: GRUB 2 for DEC Alpha?
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 2010 13:43:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1265373836.2775.4.camel@fz.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B6B3B27.2050704@gmail.com>
Am Donnerstag, den 04.02.2010, 22:24 +0100 schrieb Vladimir
'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko:
>
> Matt Turner wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I learned today that GRUB 2 aims to be cross platform and already
> > supports in some form PPC.
> >
> > Is there any interest in supporting the DEC Alpha (SRM) platform?
> >
> >
> Is there still any interest in this? I have a possibility of buying
> cheaply an Alpha Workstation. If I do I can lend a hand in porting but
> I
> don't want to do the whole porting myself. (nor I see any point if
> nobody is interested in it)
Debian squeeze will probable be released without the alpha Architecture
[0] and Wikipedia tells there are no new Alphas sold since April 2007.
I think there are more important things to do then adding support for an
architecture which is already in the progress to die.
[0] http://release.debian.org/squeeze/arch_qualify.html
--
Felix Zielcke
Proud Debian Maintainer and GNU GRUB developer
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-05 12:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-27 20:32 GRUB 2 for DEC Alpha? Matt Turner
2009-01-27 20:44 ` Vesa Jääskeläinen
2010-02-04 21:24 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2010-02-05 12:43 ` Felix Zielcke [this message]
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