Re: [PATCH 0/3] alpha: self-extracting compressed kernel images

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>]

Hi Magnus,

On Thu, 2026-10-15 at 15:37 +0200, Magnus Lindholm wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 15, 2026 at 3:26 PM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
> <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> > 
> > 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
> > 
> 
> I think I fixed cross-building a while back
> 
> https://github.com/linmag7/aboot/commits/crossbuild

Oh, I see and Matt also landed quite a number of patches. I should look into
updating the aboot package in Debian then. Thanks a lot for the hard work!

Adrian

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