compliation without DEBUG and/or DIAGNOSTIC happens without errors.
Note that all such initializations in the Alpha port are marked with "XXX
gcc -Wuninitialized". As far as I'm concerned, the one or two times
-Wuninitialized has saved me from problems are worth the (very minor) cost
involved with the initializations, esp. if it's noted why the
initializations are done. This was prompted by PR#3690, from Ted Lemon.
This can be disabled (to save a bit of space) with the NO_KERNEL_RCSIDS
options, which is present but commented out in the ALPHA config file.
In ELF-format kernels, these strings are present in the kernel binary but
are not loaded into memory. (In ECOFF-format kernels, there's no easy way
to keep them from being loaded, so they _are_ loaded into memory.)
the Digital Semiconductor AlphaPC 164 Motherboard Technical Reference
Manual. This may not work, but it's the best i can do with the
documentation I have.
21164 + 21172 box, with Yet Another Way of doing interrupts. The
interrupt mapping and handling code hasn't been written yet, and none
of this code has been tested. (Checkpoint of work in progress.)
cgd