TODO List

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• SRM
• Updating SRM by BOOTP/TFTP Guide
• DEC, Samsung, API NetWorks, Compaq, HP. Maybe a Company category?
• OEM motherboards listed on Motherboards
• Toolchains: Compaq's Alpha Compilers and Libraries:
  • libcpml, libots, libcxml, ccc, cxx, cfal, ladebug
• Guide to Assembly optimizations – WIP
• SRM/Hardware compatibility
• Hardware hacking guides for Tru64/OpenVMS support
  • HP NC7771 Gigabit NIC to 3X-DEGXA-TB
  • Adaptec 39160 SCSI controller to 3X-KZPEA-DB (Not necessary)
• List of Device IDs for Digital/Compaq/HP devices
• Hardware modifications (PSU hack for PC164)

Alpha Related Programming Projects

• Fix bugs on the Bugs to watch list.

• Fix glibc so that the test suite passes

• Optimize glibc routines
  • alphaev6/
    • memchr.S – optimize non CIX path
    • memset.S – major rewrite to prevent stalling
    • stxcpy.S – rewrite to prevent stalling
    • stxncpy.S – rewrite to prevent stalling
  • alphaev67/
    • rawmemchr.S – rewrite to prevent stalling
    • strchr.S – rewrite to prevent stalling

• Alpha optimized (maybe MVI?) code paths for
  • pixman, See FreeDesktop bug #2357 for jumping off point
  • mesa
  • xserver
  • ffmpeg
  • libpng
  • libmpeg2

• optimizations for ioquake3
  • Implement Virtual Machine for Alpha. See vm_*.c in qcommon/ and the Quake 3 Virtual Machine (Q3VM) Specifications. LLVM may be worth considering, as it would provide VMs for X86, X86-64, PowerPC 32/64, ARM, Thumb, IA-64, Alpha, SPARC, MIPS and CellSPU.
  • generate GLSL from the Q3A shaders and push all the vertex data into VBOs. This would eliminate the slowdown due to the PCI bottleneck. See this mail to the ioquake3 mailing list

• Port Red Hat's IcedTea. See Gary’s guide to porting IcedTea.
• Port GRUB 2 to Alpha
• Add ext4 support to aboot
• Fix up LLVM on alpha

More Research Needed

• Did a UP1200 exist? See references one and two
• Is there documentation other than the Product Brief for the PC164RX? Aaron Sakovich (of AlphaNT.com) says there were problems with the chipset that limited the CPU's max frequency.