Re: [PATCH 00/14] alpha: cleanups for 6.10

[Maciej W. Rozycki]

On Tue, 2 Jul 2024, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:

> > >  Anyway, back to my point.  A feasible solution non-intrusive for Linux
> > > and low-overhead for GCC has been found.  I can expedite implementation
> > > and I'll see if I can regression-test it too, but I may have to rely on
> > > other people to complete it after all, as I haven't been prepared for this
> > > effort in the light of certain issues I have recently suffered from in my
> > > lab.
> > 
> > Yeah, if compiler support makes us not have to care, then I don't
> > think the difference between pre-BWX and BWX is going to matter much
> > for the kernel.
> > 
> > The real pain with alpha has been that it's special enough that it
> > affects non-alpha code, and BWX was one big piece of that.
> 
>  Understood, that's burden beyond justification for an obsolete legacy 
> platform.

 FTR a proposed implementation of the solution is now discussed here:
<https://inbox.sourceware.org/gcc-patches/alpine.DEB.2.21.2411141652300.9262@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/>.

  Maciej