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McKenney" Date: Sun, 12 May 2024 08:17:28 +0200 In-Reply-To: References: <71feb004-82ef-4c7b-9e21-0264607e4b20@app.fastmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable User-Agent: Evolution 3.52.1 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Original-Sender: glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de X-ZEDAT-Hint: PO Hi Ulrich, On Fri, 2024-05-10 at 23:19 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > The following changes since commit fec50db7033ea478773b159e0e2efb135270e3= b7: >=20 > Linux 6.9-rc3 (2024-04-07 13:22:46 -0700) >=20 > are available in the Git repository at: >=20 > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic.git ta= gs/asm-generic-alpha >=20 > for you to fetch changes up to a4184174be36369c3af8d937e165f28a43ef1e02: >=20 > alpha: drop pre-EV56 support (2024-05-06 12:05:00 +0200) >=20 > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > alpha: cleanups and build fixes >=20 > I had investigated dropping support for alpha EV5 and earlier a while > ago after noticing that this is the only supported CPU family > in the kernel without native byte access and that Debian has already > dropped support for this generation last year [1] in order to > improve performance for the newer machines. >=20 > This topic came up again when Paul E. McKenney noticed that > parts of the RCU code already rely on byte access and do not > work on alpha EV5 reliably, so we decided on using my series to > avoid the problem entirely. >=20 > Al Viro did another series for alpha to address all the known build > issues. I rebased his patches without any further changes and included > it as a baseline for my work here to avoid conflicts and allow > backporting the fixes to stable kernels for the now removed hardware > support as well. >=20 > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Al Viro (9): > alpha: sort scr_mem{cpy,move}w() out > alpha: fix modversions for strcpy() et.al. > alpha: add clone3() support > alpha: don't make functions public without a reason > alpha: sys_sio: fix misspelled ifdefs > alpha: missing includes > alpha: core_lca: take the unused functions out > alpha: jensen, t2 - make __EXTERN_INLINE same as for the rest > alpha: trim the unused stuff from asm-offsets.c >=20 > Arnd Bergmann (5): > alpha: remove DECpc AXP150 (Jensen) support > alpha: sable: remove early machine support > alpha: remove LCA and APECS based machines > alpha: cabriolet: remove EV5 CPU support > alpha: drop pre-EV56 support There are currently efforts to remove kernel support for older Alpha machin= es before EV56 such as the Jensen machines and I was wondering what the curren= t status of the Linux kernel on your machine was. Arnd and Paul claim it's broken and no longer works, but not too long ago y= ou confirmed that Linux 5.14 booted fine on your machine. Do you have any current data? Thanks, Adrian --=20 .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913