linux-kernel - Re: is alpha jensen support dead?

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Date:   Sun, 21 May 2017 22:33:33 -0700
From:   Matt Turner <mattst88@...il.com>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc:     Richard Henderson <rth@...ddle.net>,
        Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@...assic.park.msu.ru>,
        Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>,
        linux-alpha <linux-alpha@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: is alpha jensen support dead?

On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 1:58 AM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> it seems like the Alpha Jense build (the only one using pci-noop.c)
> and thus being a different build than all the later PCI capable
> system has been broken since at least:
>
> commit 6aca0503847f6329460b15b3ab2b0e30bb752793
> Author: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>
> Date:   Tue Feb 2 21:46:33 2016 -0800
>
>     alpha/dma: use common noop dma ops
>
> which switches pci-noop.c to use generic code, but fat fingered a symbol
> and didn't wire up the Kconfig.
>
> Is there any value in keeping it alive?  Especially as there probably
> isn't any build coverage..
>
> Btw, how well is alpha working these days?  It looks like there hasn't
> been any maintainer activity for about two years.

I haven't had time for alpha stuff in quite a while.

I've never even had a Jensen, so it's never been important to me personally.