On Sun, Apr 09, 2017 at 07:47:55PM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: > Well, maybe the subject line is a bit over the top, but there's either > an element of truth to it, or the kernel developers have seriously > screwed things up in a fundamental way for kernels on Alpha after 4.9. > > Both my 4.10 and recent 4.11-rc5 builds fail to boot/run properly.
I haven't tried 4.10 yet. I'm still running 4.9 and admittedly have a number of patches applied to upstream, two of which are to fix relocation errors at link time, but I think you are already aware of those patches. > That being > said, a kernel build on the PWS-433au is an overnight-plus-a-bit-longer > proposition that I'd like to avoid if there's another way to figure out > what's going on. Install the alpha cross-compiler on an amd64 machine. I have gcc-6-alpha-linux-gnu installed and can build an alpha kernel in three minutes or so. Cheers Michael