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

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Date: Mon, 13 May 2024 23:44:11 +0200
From: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@...sik.fu-berlin.de>
To: Ulrich Teichert <krypton@...ich-teichert.org>, Akira Yokosawa
	 <akiyks@...il.com>
Cc: paulmck@...nel.org, arnd@...db.de, ink@...assic.park.msu.ru, 
 linux-alpha@...r.kernel.org, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, 
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mattst88@...il.com,
 richard.henderson@...aro.org,  torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
 viro@...iv.linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] alpha: cleanups and build fixes for 6.10

Hi Ulrich,

On Mon, 2024-05-13 at 18:52 +0200, Ulrich Teichert wrote:
> I've probably disabled SMP in my test kernel, the jensen is a single CPU
> system. I never had the pleasure of owning an AlphaServer 2000 or 2100,
> which (according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaServer and
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaStation) are the only systems
> with EV4/EV45/EV5 multi-CPU setups (apart from the Cray T3{DE}), so
> the possibility of ever seeing an error concerning atomic concurrent
> updates is quite low.
> 
> Anybody out there with an AlphaServer 2000/2100 willing to try ?-)

It has unfortunately been decided that further discussion is not wanted
and support for older Alpha hardware has now been removed. So there is
nothing more to try, unfortunately.

Adrian

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