From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751575AbdEVFd5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 May 2017 01:33:57 -0400 Received: from mail-yb0-f179.google.com ([209.85.213.179]:36167 "EHLO mail-yb0-f179.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751120AbdEVFdy (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 May 2017 01:33:54 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20170521085848.GA14559@lst.de> References: <20170521085848.GA14559@lst.de> From: Matt Turner Date: Sun, 21 May 2017 22:33:33 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: is alpha jensen support dead? To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Richard Henderson , Ivan Kokshaysky , Christian Borntraeger , linux-alpha , linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, LKML Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 1:58 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 > > 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. I haven't had time for alpha stuff in quite a while. I've never even had a Jensen, so it's never been important to me personally.