The following reply was made to PR port-alpha/34446; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Jaap Boender <jaapb@kerguelen.org>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: port-alpha/34446 (4.0_BETA kernel panics on Alpha during boot)
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 08:06:04 +0100

 I did append to it, actually; for example, 3.1 compiles fine with exactly the 
 same options.
 
 (my mk.conf:)
 KERNEL_CFLAGS=-pipe
 KERNEL_CPUFLAGS=-mcpu=ev56
 
 PKGSRC_CPUFLAGS=-mcpu=ev56
 PKGSRC_CFLAGS=-pipe
 
 .ifdef BSD_PKG_MK
 COPTS+=${PKGSRC_CFLAGS} ${PKGSRC_CPUFLAGS}
 CFLAGS+=${PKGSRC_CFLAGS} ${PKGSRC_CPUFLAGS}
 CXXFLAGS+=${PKGSRC_CFLAGS} ${PKGSRC_CPUFLAGS}
 .else
 COPTS+=${KERNEL_CFLAGS}
 CPUFLAGS+=${KERNEL_CPUFLAGS}
 .endif