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From: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 3 May 2024 12:06:38 -0400
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/14] alpha: cleanups for 6.10
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, 
	Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>, Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>, 
	Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>, Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>, 
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>, "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>, 
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On Fri, May 3, 2024 at 4:12=E2=80=AFAM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org> wrot=
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>
> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
>
> 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@gmail.com>