From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2C64E13D270; Tue, 4 Jun 2024 14:12:40 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1717510361; cv=none; b=CNRK52w9g91EVQ1HFT+4mUdmhlY9zxzurMcpTAVAyt9jrky1uExeXeoISyW+LBv+dNLdUbhSzi674NMj03HFgPxZG3Fo51+VhF71XzLyl+ngEwguQ8ce1SXfiFmyRfHwHuaBu40JzezHhA9+SXsiyN+2nJ3K5obLE4wp6yflzgs= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1717510361; c=relaxed/simple; bh=Y6UmJIt/ZPtSwsx3TQxx71w9xoPH2Deyu6uTfLtpzB0=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=A1qWdtrzOKglkv6opUqQ1Sa7XIdSpDKckul20EkjNXuJRDfUpjkPcDSgHcjG5ZAA1+Wz8tgUi+TPJWxIPKpwNWn/5kCtonYYfVIce0ngTK9rEgv8GuQpW2QHmCC//fYflzh8AKLOeb+GDcJamRlDHyKNE6XIUF9T/Q6ZT9ATeaw= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b=b1EHDFBL; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b="b1EHDFBL" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E6A52C4AF08; Tue, 4 Jun 2024 14:12:39 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1717510360; bh=Y6UmJIt/ZPtSwsx3TQxx71w9xoPH2Deyu6uTfLtpzB0=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=b1EHDFBLrdPaz0KmFZKdQ/9zHE3q/XoFUu+B/+u18DoLy5YY2n9C4LLsvMW9wUvUj yLzdrZ0oujUE4Ui6mExPQe8BX52r5PmTeX/WhSqqHUwKhhGV56cwXpaBje3wzsn9dp 8ZeZ4PQogxB6Fi2v+/uFXl/yOyEx1q5myd9zuZ1Y= Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2024 15:58:08 +0200 From: Greg KH To: Jiri Slaby Cc: Arnd Bergmann , linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org, Arnd Bergmann , Richard Henderson , Ivan Kokshaysky , Matt Turner , Alexander Viro , Marc Zyngier , Linus Torvalds , "Paul E. McKenney" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 14/14] alpha: drop pre-EV56 support Message-ID: <2024060457-graded-editor-5bd4@gregkh> References: <20240503081125.67990-1-arnd@kernel.org> <20240503081125.67990-15-arnd@kernel.org> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: On Mon, Jun 03, 2024 at 08:02:03AM +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote: > Cc Greg for awareness too. > > On 03. 05. 24, 10:11, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > From: Arnd Bergmann > > > > All EV4 machines are already gone, and the remaining EV5 based machines > > all support the slightly more modern EV56 generation as well. > > Debian only supports EV56 and later. > > > > Drop both of these and build kernels optimized for EV56 and higher > > when the "generic" options is selected, tuning for an out-of-order > > EV6 pipeline, same as Debian userspace. > > > > Since this was the only supported architecture without 8-bit and > > 16-bit stores, common kernel code no longer has to worry about > > aligning struct members, and existing workarounds from the block > > and tty layers can be removed. > > Yes! > > For TTY pieces below: > Reviewed-by: Jiri Slaby Nice! Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman