This FAQ makes an honest attempt at explaining unaligned accesses and
why it's OK for the kernel to report any floppy drive to be 2.8MB, no
matter what. I also added a section with pointers to online Alpha
documentation. It's currently pretty much what Richard Gorton sent to
the mailing list a while ago (thanks, Richard!). I hope it'll grow
significantly in the near future. The 21164 manual would be
particularly useful. The PDF files referenced in the new section
don't seem to be around yet, but I left the links in there since I
hope they'll be added soon. If you need a PDF reader, try xpdf (I
haven't had much luck with it on the Alpha) or gs3.53 (Aladdin
ghostscript; ghostview doesn't like PDF files yet, but gs3.53 does
seem to get along with them quite well).
I hope I got all requests for updates/changes in, but if something got
lost, by all means let me know.
Enjoy,
--david