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Rozycki" , Matt Turner , Lasse Collin , Richard Henderson , Nick Terrell , David Sterba , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2026 15:56:28 +0200 In-Reply-To: References: <20260912-alpha-kernel-compression-v1-0-ce9d55330193@gmail.com> <3a8312daad335c9cc7efdc497155af7c8a32af83.camel@physik.fu-berlin.de> 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 Hi Magnus, On Thu, 2026-10-15 at 15:37 +0200, Magnus Lindholm wrote: > On Thu, Oct 15, 2026 at 3:26=E2=80=AFPM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > wrote: > >=20 > > 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 suit= able > > > for netbooting via MOP, which is the only protocol supported by all S= RM > > > revisions, since earlier ones lack BOOTP/TFTP handling, such as with = one I > > > have in one of my Alpha systems. > >=20 > > Please do so. ;-) And maybe help getting the LRA port for GCC done. > >=20 > > > There's also a fix I already posted for cross-compilation support th= at is > > > required to avoid relying on a.out support in the build machine, whic= h may > > > not be there; I've come up with a better way to handle that and will = share > > > the outcome hopefully sometime soon. > >=20 > > aboot is also not cross-buildable and also needs some tweaking: > >=20 > > https://github.com/alphalinux/aboot/issues/5 > >=20 >=20 > I think I fixed cross-building a while back >=20 > https://github.com/linmag7/aboot/commits/crossbuild Oh, I see and Matt also landed quite a number of patches. I should look int= o updating the aboot package in Debian then. Thanks a lot for the hard work! Adrian --=20 .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913