On Fri, May 3, 2024 at 4:12 AM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> > > 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] after it turned > out to be broken. > > 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 I refreshed my series now for > inclusion into the next merge window. > > 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. Thanks for all this. Removing support for non-BWX alphas makes a lot of sense to me. The whole series is Acked-by: Matt Turner <mattst88@xxxxxxxxx>
