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

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