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On 09/05/2014 01:12 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>>
>> ... and I'm wondering if I should _remove_ pre-EV56 configurations or
>> move the default choice and produce a warning about unsupported Alpha
>> CPUs instead?
>>
> 
>  depends BROKEN 
> 
> or is that deprecated?
> 

Just rip it out, like I did for the i386.

	-hpa