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Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2024 15:58:08 +0200
From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 14/14] alpha: drop pre-EV56 support
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On Mon, Jun 03, 2024 at 08:02:03AM +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> Cc Greg for awareness too.
> 
> On 03. 05. 24, 10:11, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> > 
> > All EV4 machines are already gone, and the remaining EV5 based machines
> > all support the slightly more modern EV56 generation as well.
> > Debian only supports EV56 and later.
> > 
> > Drop both of these and build kernels optimized for EV56 and higher
> > when the "generic" options is selected, tuning for an out-of-order
> > EV6 pipeline, same as Debian userspace.
> > 
> > Since this was the only supported architecture without 8-bit and
> > 16-bit stores, common kernel code no longer has to worry about
> > aligning struct members, and existing workarounds from the block
> > and tty layers can be removed.
> 
> Yes!
> 
> For TTY pieces below:
> Reviewed-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org>

Nice!

Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>