IIRC Jay Estabrook said some time ago he was working on that. I
don't know if he follows this list, try emailing him
(jestabro@amt.tay1.dec.com, again IIRC).
> The presence of another comma in the CFLAGS line confuses the FILES_FLAGS
> stuff at the bottom of Rules.make thinking that it must always recompile
> every file. I stuck "-m21164a" in my gcc specs file and removed it from
> the CFLAGS, but there must be a better way.
>
> Symbol pci_devices is exported twice, requiring a few lines to be deleted
> from arch/alpha/kernel/alpha_ksyms.c. pcibios_{init,fixup} minor hacks
> to be compatible with the new pci handling, and little bug in fs/ext2/file.c.
A big patch (Richard Henderson, IIRC for a third time) was
submitted to Linus yesterday. I think the patch includes some changes to
ext2 as well as some general alpha cleanup, among other things.
Regards,