On Wed, May 24, 2023 at 1:28 PM Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, May 24, 2023 at 10:18 AM Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Any thoughts about the series would be interesting to hear. > > Well, alpha is in a deathmatch with ia64 on "least relevant > architecture ever, and next to be removed". > > There are no winners in that match. > > I still have the alpha architecture manual somewhere here, but I > haven't touched any actual hardware in decades. > > But I certainly don't see anything _wrong_ with your series from a > quick read-through. It would be nice to hear that it works on real > hardware, of course, but from previous attempts, there's only a couple > of people that still occasionally run it. I'll be happy to test.