is alpha jensen support dead?

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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 <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
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.

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is alpha jensen support dead? Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> - 2017-05-21 11:00 +0200
  Re: is alpha jensen support dead? Bob Tracy <rct@gherkin.frus.com> - 2017-05-21 20:50 +0200
    Re: is alpha jensen support dead? Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> - 2017-05-22 10:00 +0200
  Re: is alpha jensen support dead? Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com> - 2017-05-22 07:40 +0200
  Re: is alpha jensen support dead? Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> - 2017-05-22 08:00 +0200
  Re: is alpha jensen support dead? Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> - 2017-05-24 11:20 +0200
    Re: is alpha jensen support dead? Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> - 2017-05-24 11:40 +0200

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