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

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Date:   Mon, 22 May 2017 09:51:28 +0200
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     Bob Tracy <rct@...rkin.frus.com>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Richard Henderson <rth@...ddle.net>,
        Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@...assic.park.msu.ru>,
        Matt Turner <mattst88@...il.com>,
        Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>,
        linux-alpha@...r.kernel.org, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: is alpha jensen support dead?

On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 01:11:28PM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote:
> Speaking for myself, the PWS 433au I've got continues to function
> admirably as my IPv6 gateway.  Debian unstable and experimental updates
> continue to apply and work within the limits of my ability to test them.
> I'm building and running the release candidates and final versions of
> the kernel.org tree with the unstable tool chain.  Recently there was a
> FTBFS due to relocation issues during the final vmlinux link on alpha:
> that has been fixed, and what's left of the alpha community is pretty
> quick to respond and identify what's going on.
> 
> In summary, alpha is still a viable platform for *me*.

Great!  Still makes me wonder about Jensen, which appears to be
the only platform that requires a different build than the normal
generic PCI-enabled kernel.  And I suspect it's pretty much dead
at this point..