From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: is alpha jensen support dead? Date: Mon, 22 May 2017 09:51:28 +0200 Message-ID: <20170522075128.GB2081@lst.de> References: <20170521085848.GA14559@lst.de> <20170521181128.GA13376@gherkin.frus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from verein.lst.de ([213.95.11.211]:46721 "EHLO newverein.lst.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753046AbdEVHva (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 May 2017 03:51:30 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20170521181128.GA13376@gherkin.frus.com> Sender: linux-arch-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Bob Tracy Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Richard Henderson , Ivan Kokshaysky , Matt Turner , Christian Borntraeger , linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 01:11:28PM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: > Speaking for myself, the PWS 433au I've got continues to function > admirably as my IPv6 gateway. Debian unstable and experimental updates > continue to apply and work within the limits of my ability to test them. > I'm building and running the release candidates and final versions of > the kernel.org tree with the unstable tool chain. Recently there was a > FTBFS due to relocation issues during the final vmlinux link on alpha: > that has been fixed, and what's left of the alpha community is pretty > quick to respond and identify what's going on. > > In summary, alpha is still a viable platform for *me*. Great! Still makes me wonder about Jensen, which appears to be the only platform that requires a different build than the normal generic PCI-enabled kernel. And I suspect it's pretty much dead at this point..