Precompiled Linux Kernels for Alphas

This page contains links for downloading binary compiled kernel and modules in compressed tarballs.

Generic and DP264 kernels have been tested for succesfully booting and running applications up to LXDE Desktop on DS10 and DS20.

Miata and Multia kernels have been tested less, or nothing, on respective hardware.

 

Linux 3.4.62
Generic Alpha http://www.decadence.it/static/kernel/linux-3.4.62-generic.tar.bz2
DP264
http://www.decadence.it/static/kernel/linux-3.4.62-dp264.tar.bz2

Miata PWS

http://www.decadence.it/static/kernel/linux-3.4.62-miata.tar.bz2

Multia

http://www.decadence.it/static/kernel/linux-3.4.62-multia.tar.bz2
 

Debian packages

Some Debian Lenny packages recompiled with enhanced features are available at the decadence.it public repository, for alpha and i386 architectures.

In particular, the following packages are present at this time:
- VMSCD (Open)VMS ODS-2 disk reader (list and copy files, works with ISO images too)
- VTserver 2.3a PDP11 boot loader and Linux daemon for sending data over serial line

To browse and download:
http://www.decadence.it/debian/dists/lenny/main/binary-alpha

To add to apt sources, simply put the following line in /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://www.decadence.it/debian lenny main

Enjoy!
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