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Linux 6.10 To Drop Support For Very Old DEC Alpha Hardware
The Linux 6.10 kernel is poised to remove support for old DEC Alpha EV5 platforms and earlier.
This topic came up again when Paul E. McKenney noticed that parts of the RCU code already rely on byte access and do not work on alpha EV5 reliably, so I refreshed my series now for inclusion into the next merge window. The patch series also adds clone3() support to the Alpha port along with other clean-ups.About The AuthorMichael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix.com and founded the site in 2004 with a focus on enriching the Linux hardware experience. Michael is also the lead developer of the Phoronix Test Suite, Phoromatic, and OpenBenchmarking.org automated benchmarking software.
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