From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: bit fields && data tearing Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2014 15:16:03 -0700 Message-ID: <5408E4A3.2060303@zytor.com> References: <20140712181328.GA8738@redhat.com> <54079B70.4050200@hurleysoftware.com> <1409785893.30640.118.camel@pasglop> <21512.10628.412205.873477@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <20140904090952.GW17454@tucnak.redhat.com> <540859EC.5000407@hurleysoftware.com> <20140904175044.4697aee4@alan.etchedpixels.co.uk> <5408C0AB.6050801@hurleysoftware.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <5408C0AB.6050801@hurleysoftware.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Peter Hurley , One Thousand Gnomes Cc: Jakub Jelinek , Mikael Pettersson , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , "Paul E. McKenney" , Richard Henderson , Oleg Nesterov , Miroslav Franc , Paul Mackerras , linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, Tony Luck , linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-arch.vger.kernel.org On 09/04/2014 12:42 PM, Peter Hurley wrote: > > Or we could give up on the Alpha. > If Alpha is turning into Voyager (kept alive only as a museum piece, but actively causing problems) then please let's kill it. -hpa From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2014 22:16:03 +0000 Subject: Re: bit fields && data tearing Message-Id: <5408E4A3.2060303@zytor.com> List-Id: References: <20140712181328.GA8738@redhat.com> <54079B70.4050200@hurleysoftware.com> <1409785893.30640.118.camel@pasglop> <21512.10628.412205.873477@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <20140904090952.GW17454@tucnak.redhat.com> <540859EC.5000407@hurleysoftware.com> <20140904175044.4697aee4@alan.etchedpixels.co.uk> <5408C0AB.6050801@hurleysoftware.com> In-Reply-To: <5408C0AB.6050801@hurleysoftware.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Peter Hurley , One Thousand Gnomes Cc: Jakub Jelinek , Mikael Pettersson , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , "Paul E. McKenney" , Richard Henderson , Oleg Nesterov , Miroslav Franc , Paul Mackerras , linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, Tony Luck , linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org On 09/04/2014 12:42 PM, Peter Hurley wrote: > > Or we could give up on the Alpha. > If Alpha is turning into Voyager (kept alive only as a museum piece, but actively causing problems) then please let's kill it. -hpa From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.zytor.com (terminus.zytor.com [IPv6:2001:1868:205::10]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by lists.ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D5B0B1A04F7 for ; Fri, 5 Sep 2014 08:46:53 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <5408E4A3.2060303@zytor.com> Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2014 15:16:03 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Hurley , One Thousand Gnomes Subject: Re: bit fields && data tearing References: <20140712181328.GA8738@redhat.com> <54079B70.4050200@hurleysoftware.com> <1409785893.30640.118.camel@pasglop> <21512.10628.412205.873477@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <20140904090952.GW17454@tucnak.redhat.com> <540859EC.5000407@hurleysoftware.com> <20140904175044.4697aee4@alan.etchedpixels.co.uk> <5408C0AB.6050801@hurleysoftware.com> In-Reply-To: <5408C0AB.6050801@hurleysoftware.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: Jakub Jelinek , Mikael Pettersson , Tony Luck , linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, Oleg Nesterov , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Paul Mackerras , linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, "Paul E. McKenney" , linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, Miroslav Franc , Richard Henderson List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On 09/04/2014 12:42 PM, Peter Hurley wrote: > > Or we could give up on the Alpha. > If Alpha is turning into Voyager (kept alive only as a museum piece, but actively causing problems) then please let's kill it. -hpa