Hi Maciej, On Fri, 2025-05-02 at 11:57 +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > - I have only learnt last year that the Alpha backend also needs some work > here and it appears that it relies on a hack or a bunch within reload to > propagate alignment information required for non-BWX targets to produce > correct code. I haven't been able to investigate it further, but it > seems it may require considerable effort to solve and as it stands the > backend doesn't build if switched to LRA. And then last year's sudden > removal of non-BWX support from the Linux kernel has consumed my already > limited time for work on a solution to bring it back instead (with more > effort still required, also as a matter of priority).
I was able to bootstrap the Alpha backend with LRA enabled just fine when using a BWX target, i.e. the EV56. What didn't work was using the non-BWX base line. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
