Re: [PATCH -v2 0/15] x86: Remove support for TSC-less and CX8-less CPUs

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>]

* Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> wrote:

> On 5/15/25 01:56, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >  80 files changed, 47 insertions(+), 14117 deletions(-)
> 
> Thanks for doing this, Ingo. A lot of this code was sitting off on 
> the side and not causing _too_ many problems. But that was (I think) 
> mostly because it was being so lightly used.
> 
> I've been using Linux since the late 90's. The oldest systems I ever 
> ran it on were i586's and they were old at the time.
> 
> I suspect this is going to throw a couple more compile issues at us 
> to fix, that's par for the course on something like this. Ideally, 
> we'd wait for v6.16-rc1 for applying something of this magnitude. 
> What were your plans on when to apply it?

Yeah, so the good news is that the bots have been build-testing this 
series for a few weeks, and besides an UML build issue that I fixed 
there were very few problems. (knock on wood)

And since Linus asked for this and semi-acked it, I might try sending 
this in this merge window, if it's quiet enough from the x86 tree 
perspective. The diffstat is large, but as you too alluded to, it's 
99.9% obsolete code that got very little testing in practice, so I 
don't think there's an elevated risk of regressions. But let's see how 
the v6.16 merge window goes?

> In any case:
> 
> Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>

Thanks!

	Ingo