From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from outpost1.zedat.fu-berlin.de (outpost1.zedat.fu-berlin.de [130.133.4.66]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BFDFD3EFFA6; Thu, 15 Oct 2026 13:26:59 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=130.133.4.66 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1792070823; cv=none; b=XFYBViGlmuNalpKMPHJCRvPz9WgZQjooaAyqyGxDNCMIta9nVG0sTfCea0k0gRQHVd3Z3OCY1oOoK73gfwoOacFM7MurlVJgZ9eYjIgP2D/XlIy6JPpHGTrwFAxGO1n8TE69jxM9o4ucqPO6C3xNi4tnmqebhMIFNnziJdI+ZHo= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1792070823; c=relaxed/simple; bh=WCH8AVPhg0R0i85ofrTQyfn7PCgK8q6NtszsWCcyKZ4=; h=Message-ID:Subject:From:To:Cc:Date:In-Reply-To:References: Content-Type:MIME-Version; b=PaXd58lqr1lN8XFofFnlg9xiD85eWzHH1otApt+ranUr0w4BrJcUzQwV596NgkPNs84Q82JzZW5dDGYJRZNvqQLtW8/6LdiaVFTHB/xPqhV5O9z2i8iUAVj1tt+KuiTSwnQ+3BB9N1uim7Tp/Qgt13VCf+bjE0A+iI7jZRGLFnM= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=physik.fu-berlin.de; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=zedat.fu-berlin.de; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=fu-berlin.de header.i=@fu-berlin.de header.b=MYyX9uzU; arc=none smtp.client-ip=130.133.4.66 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=physik.fu-berlin.de Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=zedat.fu-berlin.de Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=fu-berlin.de header.i=@fu-berlin.de header.b="MYyX9uzU" DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=fu-berlin.de; s=fub01; h=MIME-Version:Content-Transfer-Encoding: Content-Type:References:In-Reply-To:Date:Cc:To:From:Subject:Message-ID:From: Reply-To:Subject:Date:Message-ID:To:Cc:MIME-Version:Content-Type: Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-ID:Content-Description:In-Reply-To: References; bh=wjcXwLdqO17kx7rAsA/NTIghNiFMSN+eA5stlsuCCj8=; t=1792070819; x=1792675619; b=MYyX9uzUWnGeIs300OQRT83wTUBVRtkmv3CQFHq6voCUrwYZGjBN7BhY0d0Ut dnMvSsHnnaBQYf+g0QXSsDd+MRFEVT2OiFXUkoL6L+eFe0E9ksh2ulTUH6gFWs/VUfWDR79OxeJYA HZ84PMldxv1ccYKof3ZgbY95G11uzXXcaAucQG+2oHXFeSC7dxgBTYRuOOOhI6Jy84TzCJX2BJq6M dn0s3ZuhBHsSl302a0H1FT/yclSGdza5VGxXfcMjsWAddJWQpNpFfvMcxHPvmmuqca0u7rQMAy46v 46SYJGyptNNUwcydW9pgr7MBLqoF+LtLwwsz3QTIz7gCA+8ipg==; Received: from inpost2.zedat.fu-berlin.de ([130.133.4.69]) by outpost.zedat.fu-berlin.de (Exim 4.100) with esmtps (TLS1.3) tls TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (envelope-from ) id 1xHLU0-00000000fH4-0ZeM; Thu, 15 Oct 2026 15:26:56 +0200 Received: from p5b13a90a.dip0.t-ipconnect.de ([91.19.169.10] helo=[192.168.178.61]) by inpost2.zedat.fu-berlin.de (Exim 4.100) with esmtpsa (TLS1.3) tls TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (envelope-from ) id 1xHLTz-000000048of-3PFl; Thu, 15 Oct 2026 15:26:56 +0200 Message-ID: <3a8312daad335c9cc7efdc497155af7c8a32af83.camel@physik.fu-berlin.de> Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] alpha: self-extracting compressed kernel images From: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" , Matt Turner Cc: Lasse Collin , Richard Henderson , Magnus Lindholm , Nick Terrell , David Sterba , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2026 15:26:55 +0200 In-Reply-To: References: <20260912-alpha-kernel-compression-v1-0-ce9d55330193@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable User-Agent: Evolution 3.60.2 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Original-Sender: glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de X-ZEDAT-Hint: PO On Thu, 2026-10-15 at 14:09 +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > On Sat, 12 Sep 2026, Matt Turner wrote: >=20 > > The SRM netboot path (bootpz.c) has its own boot protocol and keeps > > using gzip. >=20 > Reminds me to dust off and upstream patches for making an image suitable= =20 > for netbooting via MOP, which is the only protocol supported by all SRM= =20 > revisions, since earlier ones lack BOOTP/TFTP handling, such as with one = I=20 > 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 i= s=20 > required to avoid relying on a.out support in the build machine, which ma= y=20 > not be there; I've come up with a better way to handle that and will shar= e=20 > 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 --=20 .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913