Re: unable to cross-compile kernel?

[Dave McGuire <mcguire%neurotica.com@localhost>]

On 7/4/25 20:01, Mouse wrote:
> > > You said it boots stock GENERIC just fine.  My first reaction would
> > > be to try building GENERIC.MP on the SS10 running GENERIC.  It'll
> > > take a while, but it strikes me as worth trying.
> > Yeah I had thought about that, but that would be a challenge.  The
> > SS10 in question is on the exhibit floor at LSSM, and there's no UPS
> > for those machines.  We've been having fairly severe thunderstorms
> > pretty much every day recently (drill baby drill, etc) so I'm not
> > comfortable leaving the machine up for long enough for a single SM41
> > to build an entire kernel.
>
> Are you more concerned about a power failure taking the machine down or
> about a power spike damaging it?
>
> If the former, it's no big deal; just restart and make will skip
> building what's already built.
>
> If the latter...yeah, I get it.  Hmm....

  More the latter.  There are a lot of SPARCstation-10s out there, but 
playing loose with them is how things become "rare".

          -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
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