On Tue, 2 Jul 2024, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > > > Anyway, back to my point. A feasible solution non-intrusive for Linux > > > and low-overhead for GCC has been found. I can expedite implementation > > > and I'll see if I can regression-test it too, but I may have to rely on > > > other people to complete it after all, as I haven't been prepared for this > > > effort in the light of certain issues I have recently suffered from in my > > > lab. > > > > Yeah, if compiler support makes us not have to care, then I don't > > think the difference between pre-BWX and BWX is going to matter much > > for the kernel. > > > > The real pain with alpha has been that it's special enough that it > > affects non-alpha code, and BWX was one big piece of that. > > Understood, that's burden beyond justification for an obsolete legacy > platform. FTR a proposed implementation of the solution is now discussed here: <https://inbox.sourceware.org/gcc-patches/alpine.DEB.2.21.2411141652300.9262@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/>. Maciej
