linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] alpha: cleanups and build fixes for 6.10

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Date: Sun, 12 May 2024 08:02:59 +0200
From: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@...sik.fu-berlin.de>
To: paulmck@...nel.org, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, 
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Linux-Arch <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>, 
 linux-alpha@...r.kernel.org, Richard Henderson
 <richard.henderson@...aro.org>,  Ivan Kokshaysky
 <ink@...assic.park.msu.ru>, Matt Turner <mattst88@...il.com>, Alexander
 Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] alpha: cleanups and build fixes for 6.10

On Sat, 2024-05-11 at 18:26 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> And that breaks things because it can clobber concurrent stores to
> other bytes in that enclosing machine word.

But pre-EV56 Alpha has always been like this. What makes it broken
all of a sudden?

My question was whether it actually stopped working, i.e. it's no
longer usable on these machines but that's not the case as far as
I know as not too long ago someone was actually running Debian on
a Jensen machine [1].

We could actually ask Ulrich Teichert what the current state is
on his Jensen machine.

Adrian

> [1] https://marc.info/?l=linux-alpha&m=163265555616841&w=2

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