On Thu May 25, 2023 at 3:52 AM AEST, Matt Turner wrote: > 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. Except that I don't get yelled at by so many people when things break. Why do you think I work on powerpc? (/s, kind of). At least it's a reference, hopefully we can get a bit more interest. If we get a few converted then we could find some common patterns and pull them into generic code or at least a simpler recipe as we try to convert everything and just make this the only way it's implemented. Of course we need the big archs on board at some point. > > 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. Thanks Matt, I'll put a git tree up and ping you. Thanks, Nick
