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To Do

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
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
Not started	Alpha target specification and standard library support in `rustc`, for use with rustc_codegen_gcc; `rustc` cannot target Alpha through LLVM
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

Recently completed

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

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