linux-kernel - Re: RFC: remove sn2, hpsim and ia64 machvecs

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Message-ID: <0b5ef759-06c7-4f12-5e8b-ce35d2f25b5c@physik.fu-berlin.de>
Date:   Wed, 7 Aug 2019 15:35:37 +0200
From:   John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@...sik.fu-berlin.de>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
        Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>
Cc:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFC: remove sn2, hpsim and ia64 machvecs

Hi Christoph!

On 8/7/19 3:30 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> let me know what you think of this series.  This drops the pretty much
> dead sn2 and hpsim support, which then allows us to build a single ia64
> kernel image that supports all remaining systems without extra indirections
> in the fast path.

Interesting. Does that mean Debian no longer needs to maintain two different
kernels for ia64, currently named "itanium" and "mckinley"?

Adrian

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