[Info-vax] VSI software

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2020-08-06 kl. 14:15, skrev Dave Froble:
> On 8/6/2020 6:42 AM, David Goodwin wrote:
>> On Thursday, August 6, 2020 at 3:36:20 PM UTC+12, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
>>> I've been assuming that support for Alpha systems with processors prior
>>> to EV6 will be omitted from the upcoming OpenVMS Alpha releases
>>> (V8.4-2L2 requires EV6 or later), but I don't know if that's been
>>> announced by VSI.
>>
>> I've been wondering about this. I do have a dual-processor DS20 but the 
>> thing is so big, heavy and power hungry (plus IIRC there is something 
>> wrong with it) that I just use an AlphaServer 800 instead. But if an EV5 
>> and an x86 can't exist in the same cluster then I guess I'll have to sort 
>> out the DS20 and just run it on special occasions.
>>
> 
> Not that VSI will actually do what one might expect.
> 
> Regardless, V8.4-2L1 and V8.4-2L2 are exactly the same code base, with 2L2 
> compiled to take advantage of EV6 capabilities.  At least that is my 
> understanding.  So, I'd expect that one could consider 2L1 "standard" and 
> 2L2 "special" for EV6.
> 
> It doesn't seem reasonable to not be as inclusive as possible, so I'd 
> expect the "standard" builds to include CPUs prior to EV6.
> 
> I guess we all just wait to discover what will happen.
> 

According to the roadmap, the next VMS/Alpha release will be V9.2, after
the production release of VMS/x86. This is late 2021 or maybe 2022.