Alpha/Linux Wiki

2026-09-25	The wiki was rebuilt on DokuWiki, replacing the MediaWiki installation that ran alphalinux.org until 2012.
2026-09-21	GCC can expand `fpclassify` and related builtins inline on Alpha, with patches implementing Alpha's FP classification optabs (PR66462) by Matt Turner.
2026-09-13	A DEC Alpha BCJ filter for liblzma, which would let xz compress Alpha binaries better, was proposed by Matt Turner.
2026-09-12	PCRE2's just-in-time regex compiler now generates native Alpha code, after Alpha JIT support by Matt Turner was merged.
2026-09-10	Alpha architecture detection for Boost was proposed by Matt Turner.
2026-09-06	glibc emits Alpha's divide-by-zero handler once per link, in a comdat group, instead of pulling in a copy per translation unit (BZ #20543); fix by Matt Turner.
2026-09-05	aboot 2.0 was released by Matt Turner, adding XFS and ext4 support by Magnus Lindholm, so that Alpha systems can boot from either file system.
2026-08-31	The binutils Alpha back end gained IFUNC symbol support, letting the linker resolve indirect functions in both PIC and non-PIC links; patches by Matt Turner.
2026-08-29	GCC's Alpha back end gained -fstack-protector support; patches by Matt Turner.
2026-08-18	GCC honors -frounding-math on Alpha, selecting the dynamic rounding mode instead of assuming round-to-nearest; patch by Matt Turner.
2026-08-18	Alpha moved toward the kernel's generic entry infrastructure, gaining lockdep hardirq tracking, `ARCH_STACKWALK`-based stack traces, and regset-based ptrace; patches by Magnus Lindholm, merged for Linux 7.3.
2026-08-16	The ghidra-alpha processor module for Ghidra gained semantics fixes, a gp-relative reference analyzer, and Windows NT calling-convention fixes (#1, #4, #6), contributed by Matt Turner.
2026-08-12	GCC enables IFUNC support for alpha-linux, the compiler half of Alpha's IFUNC support; patch by Matt Turner.
2026-08-10	Patches fixing stale TLB translations, which could corrupt memory through copy-on-write and shared-mapping writeback, were sent by Magnus Lindholm.
2026-08-10	glibc on Alpha now uses the generic gethostname, and a stack alignment bug in `makecontext` is fixed; patches by Magnus Lindholm.
2026-08-09	GCC rounds to odd before narrowing Alpha's `TFmode` to `SFmode`, avoiding double rounding; patch by Matt Turner.
2026-08-01	sljit, the base of PCRE2's JIT, gained an Alpha JIT back end, written by Matt Turner.
2026-07-25	gperftools gained basic Alpha support, added by Michael Cree.
2026-07-15	Adding -mlra and enabling LRA by default on BWX targets in GCC's Alpha back end was proposed by Matt Turner.
2026-07-15	GCC's LRA pass now marks the hard frame pointer live when it decides one is needed, fixing a miscompile that broke Alpha's Modula-2 bootstrap (PR117184); fix by Matt Turner.
2026-07-07	procps' pmap test suite passes on Alpha, which has a heap mapping but no vDSO or vsyscall page; fix by Craig Small.
2026-07-06	umockdev detects the C library name correctly on Alpha; fix by Michael Cree.
2026-06-20	Several Alpha decoder bugs in Capstone were fixed, with new test coverage, by Matt Turner.
2026-05-28	The sanitizer runtimes in LLVM's compiler-rt gained Alpha support; patches by Matt Turner.
2026-04-17	Alpha gained SECCOMP and SECCOMP_FILTER support, and runs the seccomp-bpf selftests; patches by Magnus Lindholm, merged for Linux 7.1.
2026-04-09	libunwind gained Alpha architecture support, enabling stack unwinding on Alpha; patches by Matt Turner.
2025-11-04	Magnus Lindholm became a maintainer of the Alpha architecture in the Linux kernel.