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

[Matt Turner]

On Fri, Oct 16, 2026 at 6:36 PM Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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.

Sorry, re-reading my message, it feels unnecessarily aggressive. Not my intent.

>  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.

Yeah, I feel that. I did everything I could to preserve history and
sources for the wiki content. I spent months waiting on GitHub support
to transfer the "alphalinux" organization that the late Peter Petrakis
set up a decade ago

https://github.com/alphalinux/

It now hosts various repositories, including the wiki content:

https://github.com/alphalinux/alphalinux.org-wiki-content

and all of the Alpha-related mailing list archives I could find:

https://github.com/alphalinux/mailing-list-archives

My intention is that even if I (and alphalinux.org) disappear, the
wiki content won't.