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

[Magnus Lindholm]

Hi all,

On Thu, Oct 15, 2026 at 3:26 PM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
<glaubitz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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

Not sure if that was part of the PR? I need to check that.

> >  Thank you for your ongoing maintenance effort overall.
>
> Yes, Matt and Magnus are doing a great job bringing alpha back into shape!
>

Thanks! it's fun work, especially now when things are moving forward.


Regards

Magnus