From: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>
To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@orcam.me.uk>,
Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Cc: Lasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org>,
Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>,
Magnus Lindholm <linmag7@gmail.com>,
Nick Terrell <terrelln@fb.com>, David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] alpha: self-extracting compressed kernel images
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2026 15:26:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3a8312daad335c9cc7efdc497155af7c8a32af83.camel@physik.fu-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.21.2610120106400.55767@angie.orcam.me.uk>
On Thu, 2026-10-15 at 14:09 +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Sep 2026, Matt Turner wrote:
>
> > The SRM netboot path (bootpz.c) has its own boot protocol and keeps
> > using gzip.
>
> Reminds me to dust off and upstream patches for making an image suitable
> for netbooting via MOP, which is the only protocol supported by all SRM
> revisions, since earlier ones lack BOOTP/TFTP handling, such as with one I
> have in one of my Alpha systems.
Please do so. ;-) And maybe help getting the LRA port for GCC done.
> There's also a fix I already posted for cross-compilation support that is
> required to avoid relying on a.out support in the build machine, which may
> not be there; I've come up with a better way to handle that and will share
> the outcome hopefully sometime soon.
aboot is also not cross-buildable and also needs some tweaking:
https://github.com/alphalinux/aboot/issues/5
> Thank you for your ongoing maintenance effort overall.
Yes, Matt and Magnus are doing a great job bringing alpha back into shape!
Adrian
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-10-15 13:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-12 19:55 Matt Turner
2026-09-12 19:55 ` [PATCH 1/3] xz: add arch-specific tuning for alpha Matt Turner
2026-09-13 9:45 ` Magnus Lindholm
2026-09-15 19:03 ` Lasse Collin
2026-09-17 17:54 ` Magnus Lindholm
2026-09-12 19:55 ` [PATCH 2/3] alpha: add self-extracting compressed kernel boot stub Matt Turner
2026-09-13 9:47 ` Magnus Lindholm
2026-09-12 19:55 ` [PATCH 3/3] alpha: support the remaining kernel compression formats Matt Turner
2026-09-13 9:56 ` Magnus Lindholm
2026-09-13 9:57 ` [PATCH 0/3] alpha: self-extracting compressed kernel images Magnus Lindholm
2026-10-15 13:09 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2026-10-15 13:26 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz [this message]
2026-10-15 13:37 ` Magnus Lindholm
2026-10-15 13:56 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
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