From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1034277AbdEXJQM (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 May 2017 05:16:12 -0400 Received: from mx0b-001b2d01.pphosted.com ([148.163.158.5]:36413 "EHLO mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S937367AbdEXJQH (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 May 2017 05:16:07 -0400 Subject: Re: is alpha jensen support dead? To: Christoph Hellwig , Richard Henderson , Ivan Kokshaysky , Matt Turner References: <20170521085848.GA14559@lst.de> Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Christian Borntraeger Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 11:16:01 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20170521085848.GA14559@lst.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-TM-AS-GCONF: 00 x-cbid: 17052409-0028-0000-0000-000007A7C317 X-IBM-SpamModules-Scores: X-IBM-SpamModules-Versions: BY=3.00007109; HX=3.00000241; KW=3.00000007; PH=3.00000004; SC=3.00000212; SDB=6.00864885; UDB=6.00429393; IPR=6.00644666; BA=6.00005371; NDR=6.00000001; ZLA=6.00000005; ZF=6.00000009; ZB=6.00000000; ZP=6.00000000; ZH=6.00000000; ZU=6.00000002; MB=3.00015562; XFM=3.00000015; UTC=2017-05-24 09:16:05 X-IBM-AV-DETECTION: SAVI=unused REMOTE=unused XFE=unused x-cbparentid: 17052409-0029-0000-0000-000035E4D41C Message-Id: <11c44626-d496-ec77-c294-1d734d6125aa@de.ibm.com> X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10432:,, definitions=2017-05-24_07:,, signatures=0 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=outbound_notspam policy=outbound score=0 spamscore=0 suspectscore=0 malwarescore=0 phishscore=0 adultscore=0 bulkscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=8.0.1-1703280000 definitions=main-1705240044 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 05/21/2017 10:58 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Hi all, > > it seems like the Alpha Jense build (the only one using pci-noop.c) > and thus being a different build than all the later PCI capable > system has been broken since at least: > > commit 6aca0503847f6329460b15b3ab2b0e30bb752793 > Author: Christian Borntraeger > Date: Tue Feb 2 21:46:33 2016 -0800 > > alpha/dma: use common noop dma ops > Hi Christoph, are you providing a fix (or a jensen removal) or do you expect a fix from me? > which switches pci-noop.c to use generic code, but fat fingered a symbol > and didn't wire up the Kconfig. > > Is there any value in keeping it alive? Especially as there probably > isn't any build coverage.. > > Btw, how well is alpha working these days? It looks like there hasn't > been any maintainer activity for about two years. >