Re: [PATCH 1/4] alpha: replace dead links in Kconfig help text

[Maciej W. Rozycki]

On Fri, 16 Oct 2026, Matt Turner wrote:

> >  Of course nested links may or may not work, but at least references to
> > some information are retained.  Or has it all been already extracted and
> > written down in the wiki?
> 
> Did you compare any of the wiki pages and the old links?

 I read through the old pages and found them reasonable.  No, I didn't 
reach for the wiki, perhaps I should have.

> I looked at all of these links via archive.org before sending the
> patches and didn't see any useful information. The LX164 link just
> contained the board specs and a link to the Technical Reference
> Manual. The Rawhide link is an install guide for Red Hat 6.0. Similar
> situation with the Ruffian page.
> 
> If you see any information that's missing from the wiki that I spent a
> huge amount of time creating, point it out and I'll add it. At this
> point, I see no reason to keep links to 1999-era articles.

 Fair enough, I take your word, this was just a question.  I guess it 
wouldn't hurt having your effort mentioned in the commit description; 
indeed I think it would help saying that the wiki has made all the old 
references obsolete.

 And I get nervous whenever pointers to old information get removed, as it 
makes it gradually more and more difficult to chase.  As recently as the 
day before yesterday I have pointed someone to an archive.org copy of a 
specification they were after and could not find for an old piece of MIPS 
hardware, that no contemporary search engine would list and I could only 
locate because 20+ years ago I recorded the full URL as I downloaded it.  

  Maciej