From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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>,
Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>,
Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>,
"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/14] alpha: remove DECpc AXP150 (Jensen) support
Date: Fri, 3 May 2024 09:07:48 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHk-=whUDyvBNVna_vbYGfN0SUjt1jN6hUgRjoLFq_XTV_0gMQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240503081125.67990-11-arnd@kernel.org>
On Fri, 3 May 2024 at 01:12, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
>
> This is one of the hackiest Alpha machines, and the only one without
> PCI support. Removing this allows cleaning up code in eise and tty
> drivers in addition to the architecture code.
Oh well, The axp150 was the machine I used originally, so it's a bit
sad to see it go.
But yeah, good riddance. The lack of byte and word operations were a
fundamental mistake and made those early alphas very painful.
The design team obviously made other technical mistakes (sw fill tlb
etc, with memory ordering being the one that never got fixed), but the
byte were the killer for any sanity both on the IO side and the code
generation side.
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-05-03 16:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-05-03 8:11 [PATCH 00/14] alpha: cleanups for 6.10 Arnd Bergmann
2024-05-03 8:11 ` [PATCH 01/14] alpha: sort scr_mem{cpy,move}w() out Arnd Bergmann
2024-05-03 8:11 ` [PATCH 02/14] alpha: fix modversions for strcpy() et.al Arnd Bergmann
2024-05-03 8:11 ` [PATCH 03/14] alpha: add clone3() support Arnd Bergmann
2024-05-03 8:11 ` [PATCH 04/14] alpha: don't make functions public without a reason Arnd Bergmann
2024-05-03 8:11 ` [PATCH 05/14] alpha: sys_sio: fix misspelled ifdefs Arnd Bergmann
2024-05-03 8:11 ` [PATCH 06/14] alpha: missing includes Arnd Bergmann
2024-05-03 8:11 ` [PATCH 07/14] alpha: core_lca: take the unused functions out Arnd Bergmann
2024-05-03 8:11 ` [PATCH 08/14] alpha: jensen, t2 - make __EXTERN_INLINE same as for the rest Arnd Bergmann
2024-05-03 8:11 ` [PATCH 09/14] alpha: trim the unused stuff from asm-offsets.c Arnd Bergmann
2024-05-03 8:11 ` [PATCH 10/14] alpha: remove DECpc AXP150 (Jensen) support Arnd Bergmann
2024-05-03 16:07 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2024-05-03 17:00 ` Al Viro
2024-05-03 20:07 ` Arnd Bergmann
2024-05-03 8:11 ` [PATCH 11/14] alpha: sable: remove early machine support Arnd Bergmann
2024-05-03 8:11 ` [PATCH 12/14] alpha: remove LCA and APECS based machines Arnd Bergmann
2024-05-03 8:11 ` [PATCH 13/14] alpha: cabriolet: remove EV5 CPU support Arnd Bergmann
2024-05-03 8:11 ` [PATCH 14/14] alpha: drop pre-EV56 support Arnd Bergmann
2024-05-04 15:00 ` Richard Henderson
2024-05-06 10:06 ` Arnd Bergmann
2024-05-03 16:06 ` [PATCH 00/14] alpha: cleanups for 6.10 Matt Turner
2024-05-03 20:15 ` Arnd Bergmann
2024-05-06 9:16 ` Michael Cree
2024-05-06 10:11 ` Arnd Bergmann
2024-05-03 16:53 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2024-05-03 17:19 ` Paul E. McKenney
2024-05-27 23:49 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
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