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Re: is alpha jensen support dead?

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On 05/21/2017 10:58 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 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
> 

Hi Christoph,

are you providing a fix (or a jensen removal) or do you expect a fix from me?


> 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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