Gentoo Alpha Documentation

José Luis Rivero Author

Updated May 25, 2006

1. Introduction

This section tries to become a big index where users and devs can find any link related to Gentoo/Alpha documentation or related to Alpha processors.

2. Documentation

Gentoo/Alpha Handbook: the handbook contains the installation instructions for Alpha machines and parts about working with Gentoo and Portage.
Gentoo/Alpha FAQ: the FAQ is intended to answer some of the most frequently asked questions relating to Gentoo/Alpha and Linux/Alpha in general.
Gentoo/Alpha Porting Guide: this guide is intended to show C programmers how to port programs written on other architectures to the Alpha architecture.
Gentoo/Alpha Devmanual Section: a quick overview about Alpha architecture inside Devmanual.

AlphaLinux.org Docs: Alphalinux.org has one of the better collections of Alpha related articles and docs.
Alpha, The History in Facts and Comments: a good doc about Alpha history from the beginning to the cancelled EV8.
HP Alpha Future Roadmap 2005-2011: HP official doc about the plans for Alpha processors in next years. Not very good news.
Alpha Assembly Language Programmer's Guide: this book describes the assembly language supported by the Digital UNIX compiler system, its syntax rules, and how to write some assembly programs.

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