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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=3Dlinux-alpha&m=3D163265555616841&w=3D2

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