===== Bugs =====

How to report a bug that affects Linux on Alpha, and where to find the Alpha-specific bugs already open in each project's tracker. Problems that span several projects are tracked in [[https://github.com/alphalinux/issues/issues|alphalinux/issues]].

==== How to report a bug ====

The right place for a report depends on where the bug is. If it is unclear which component is at fault, ask on linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org or the distribution's Alpha list first.

^ Bug in ^ Report to ^
| The kernel | linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org, with the Alpha maintainers on Cc. See [[documentation:kernel#reporting_bugs|Kernel: Reporting bugs]] |
| GCC | [[https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/|GCC Bugzilla]], with the target set to ''alpha-linux-gnu'' |
| glibc, binutils | [[https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/|Sourceware Bugzilla]], with the host set to the output of ''gcc -dumpmachine'', such as ''alpha-unknown-linux-gnu'' |
| A Gentoo package | [[https://bugs.gentoo.org/|Gentoo Bugzilla]], with ''alpha@gentoo.org'' on Cc |
| A Debian package | The Debian bug tracking system, with ''reportbug''. Add the user tag with ''User: debian-alpha@lists.debian.org'' and ''Usertags: alpha'' pseudo-headers, and send a copy to the debian-alpha list with ''X-Debbugs-Cc'' |
| A T2 SDE package | The [[https://github.com/rxrbln/t2sde/issues|T2 SDE issue tracker]] on GitHub, linked from [[https://t2sde.org/|t2sde.org]] |
| QEMU's Alpha emulation | The [[https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues|QEMU issue tracker]]. Include the full command line and QEMU version |
| Other software | The software's own tracker |

A useful report says which system and processor the bug happens on, with the output of ''uname -a'' and the CPU from ''/proc/cpuinfo'', since behavior can differ between an EV56 and an EV67 system, and whether it also happens under [[documentation:qemu|QEMU]]. For a crash, the kernel log, and for a failed build, the full build log. Some common symptoms have well-known causes; see the [[:faq|FAQ]] for "unaligned trap" messages, "Illegal instruction", and "relocation truncated to fit".

==== Open Alpha bugs ====

  * [[https://bugzilla.kernel.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=__open__&component=Alpha&list_id=1053627&product=Platform%20Specific%2FHardware|Linux]]
  * [[https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?bug_status=__open__&cf_gcchost=alpha.%2Alinux&cf_gcchost_type=regexp&product=gcc|gcc]]
  * [[https://www.sourceware.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?bug_status=__open__&cf_gcchost=alpha&cf_gcchost_type=regexp&product=glibc&query_format=advanced|glibc]]
  * [[https://www.sourceware.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?bug_status=__open__&cf_gcchost=alpha&cf_gcchost_type=regexp&product=binutils|binutils]]
  * [[https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=__open__&email1=alpha%40gentoo.org&emailassigned_to1=1&emailcc1=1&emailtype1=exact&list_id=4510828|Gentoo]]
  * [[https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=debian-alpha@lists.debian.org;tag=alpha|Debian]], bugs user-tagged ''alpha'' by the Debian Ports porters
  * [[https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/?label_name%5B%5D=target%3A%20alpha|QEMU]], issues labeled ''target: alpha''

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