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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?

If you are planning to provide the code for it and maintain it :) (or
someone else).

> Alpha users currently use the long unmaintained aboot bootloader.
> Possibly code could be reused from aboot.

We are using GPL v3. And that is not joy either to copy code...