On Sat, 2024-05-11 at 18:26 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > And that breaks things because it can clobber concurrent stores to > other bytes in that enclosing machine word. But pre-EV56 Alpha has always been like this. What makes it broken all of a sudden? My question was whether it actually stopped working, i.e. it's no longer usable on these machines but that's not the case as far as I know as not too long ago someone was actually running Debian on a Jensen machine [1]. We could actually ask Ulrich Teichert what the current state is on his Jensen machine. Adrian > [1] https://marc.info/?l=linux-alpha&m=163265555616841&w=2 -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913