Work planned or under way on Alpha support in the projects below. The owner is the person doing the work, where someone is; tasks without an owner are open for anyone to take up, and a message to the project's list is the way to start. Gaps that have no task yet are described under Current Status.
| Status | Task | Owner | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | |||
| In progress | Generic kernel compression support | Matt Turner | |
| In progress | ProfileMe profiling support | Matt Turner | |
| In progress | Profiling support for processors before the EV67 | Matt Turner | |
| In progress | Hugepage support | Matt Turner | tests |
| Not started | vDSO support | ||
| In progress | Contiguous allocations support (CMA) | Magnus Lindholm | lore link |
| In progress | Jump label (static key) support | Magnus Lindholm | lore link |
| In progress | Machine check handler for tsunami | Magnus Lindholm | lore link |
| GCC | |||
| In progress | Switch to LRA for BWX | Matt Turner | patch, issue |
| In progress | Switch to LRA for non-BWX | Matt Turner | issue |
| In progress | Fix test suite failures | Matt Turner | |
| glibc | |||
| In progress | Fix test suite failures | Matt Turner, Magnus Lindholm | |
| In progress | IFUNC and multiarch support | Matt Turner | |
| In progress | mem* and str* function optimizations | Matt Turner | |
| Rust | |||
| In progress | Alpha target in rustc_codegen_gcc, the GCC back end for rustc | issue #742 | |
| In progress | Alpha target specification and standard library support in rustc, for use with rustc_codegen_gcc; rustc cannot target Alpha through LLVM | rust-alpha | |
| QEMU | |||
| Not started | SRM console callbacks in qemu-palcode, so that aboot can boot a disk | ||
| Other software | |||
| Not started | Alpha support in libseccomp | issue | |
Completed tasks stay here until the release that includes them, and are then removed; the News records them.
| Project | Task | Owner | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | SECCOMP and SECCOMP_FILTER support | Magnus Lindholm | Linux 7.1 |
| Linux | GENERIC_ENTRY support | Magnus Lindholm | Linux 7.3 |
| GCC | Stack protector support | Matt Turner | patch |
| GCC | IFUNC support | Matt Turner | patch |
| binutils | IFUNC support | Matt Turner | patch |
| aboot | XFS support | Magnus Lindholm | aboot 2.0 |
| aboot | ext4 support | Magnus Lindholm | aboot 2.0 |
| aboot | Release 2.0 | Matt Turner | aboot 2.0 |
| Other software | Basic Alpha support in gperftools | Michael Cree | commit |