From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: is alpha jensen support dead? Date: Sun, 21 May 2017 10:58:48 +0200 Message-ID: <20170521085848.GA14559@lst.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from verein.lst.de ([213.95.11.211]:43114 "EHLO newverein.lst.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751079AbdEUI6u (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 May 2017 04:58:50 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-arch-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Richard Henderson , Ivan Kokshaysky , Matt Turner Cc: Christian Borntraeger , linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi all, it seems like the Alpha Jense build (the only one using pci-noop.c) and thus being a different build than all the later PCI capable system has been broken since at least: commit 6aca0503847f6329460b15b3ab2b0e30bb752793 Author: Christian Borntraeger Date: Tue Feb 2 21:46:33 2016 -0800 alpha/dma: use common noop dma ops which switches pci-noop.c to use generic code, but fat fingered a symbol and didn't wire up the Kconfig. Is there any value in keeping it alive? Especially as there probably isn't any build coverage.. Btw, how well is alpha working these days? It looks like there hasn't been any maintainer activity for about two years.