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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2024-05-13 09:14:57 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2024-05-13 09:14:57 -0700 |
| commit | 736676f5c3abd1fc01c41813a95246e892937f6d (patch) | |
| tree | 0be342c9581938d44de06f0594d1ddd769e3bb5d /Documentation/driver-api | |
| parent | 6d1346f1bcbf2724dee8af013cdab9f7b581435b (diff) | |
| parent | a4184174be36369c3af8d937e165f28a43ef1e02 (diff) | |
Merge tag 'asm-generic-alpha' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic
Pull alpha updates from Arnd Bergmann:
"I had investigated dropping support for alpha EV5 and earlier a while
ago after noticing that this is the only supported CPU family in the
kernel without native byte access and that Debian has already dropped
support for this generation last year [1] in order to improve
performance for the newer machines.
This topic came up again when Paul McKenney noticed that parts of the
RCU code already rely on byte access and do not work on alpha EV5
reliably, so we decided on using my series to avoid the problem
entirely.
Al Viro did another series for alpha to address all the known build
issues. I rebased his patches without any further changes and included
it as a baseline for my work here to avoid conflicts and allow
backporting the fixes to stable kernels for the now removed hardware
support as well"
[ I dearly loved alpha back in the days, but the lack of byte and word
operations was a horrible mistake and made everything worse -
including very much the crazy IO contortions that resulted from it.
It certainly wasn't the only mistake in the architecture, but it's the
first-order issue.
So while it's a bit sad to see the support for my first alpha go away,
if you want to run museum hardware, maybe you should use museum
kernels.. - Linus ]
* tag 'asm-generic-alpha' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic:
alpha: drop pre-EV56 support
alpha: cabriolet: remove EV5 CPU support
alpha: remove LCA and APECS based machines
alpha: sable: remove early machine support
alpha: remove DECpc AXP150 (Jensen) support
alpha: trim the unused stuff from asm-offsets.c
alpha: jensen, t2 - make __EXTERN_INLINE same as for the rest
alpha: core_lca: take the unused functions out
alpha: missing includes
alpha: sys_sio: fix misspelled ifdefs
alpha: don't make functions public without a reason
alpha: add clone3() support
alpha: fix modversions for strcpy() et.al.
alpha: sort scr_mem{cpy,move}w() out
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/driver-api')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/driver-api/eisa.rst | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/eisa.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/eisa.rst index 3eac11b7eb01..b33ebe1ec9ed 100644 --- a/Documentation/driver-api/eisa.rst +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/eisa.rst @@ -196,8 +196,8 @@ eisa_bus.disable_dev virtual_root.force_probe Force the probing code to probe EISA slots even when it cannot find an EISA compliant mainboard (nothing appears on slot 0). Defaults to 0 - (don't force), and set to 1 (force probing) when either - CONFIG_ALPHA_JENSEN or CONFIG_EISA_VLB_PRIMING are set. + (don't force), and set to 1 (force probing) when + CONFIG_EISA_VLB_PRIMING is set. Random notes ============ |