Re: unable to cross-compile kernel?

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
New Kensington, PA