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

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz]

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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