alpha: drop pre-EV56 support
authorArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Wed, 13 Dec 2023 17:00:54 +0000 (18:00 +0100)
committerArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Mon, 6 May 2024 10:05:00 +0000 (12:05 +0200)
commita4184174be36369c3af8d937e165f28a43ef1e02
tree2502518abc421253bc3f18ebd472b7cea0cbbe32
parent4bf859076b16f1b7b096ac1f98039a362cee999e
alpha: drop pre-EV56 support

All EV4 machines are already gone, and the remaining EV5 based machines
all support the slightly more modern EV56 generation as well.
Debian only supports EV56 and later.

Drop both of these and build kernels optimized for EV56 and higher
when the "generic" options is selected, tuning for an out-of-order
EV6 pipeline, same as Debian userspace.

Since this was the only supported architecture without 8-bit and
16-bit stores, common kernel code no longer has to worry about
aligning struct members, and existing workarounds from the block
and tty layers can be removed.

The alpha memory management code no longer needs an abstraction
for the differences between EV4 and EV5+.

Link: https://lists.debian.org/debian-alpha/2023/05/msg00009.html
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
13 files changed:
arch/alpha/Kconfig
arch/alpha/Makefile
arch/alpha/include/asm/elf.h
arch/alpha/include/asm/machvec.h
arch/alpha/include/asm/mmu_context.h
arch/alpha/include/asm/special_insns.h
arch/alpha/include/asm/tlbflush.h
arch/alpha/include/asm/uaccess.h
arch/alpha/include/uapi/asm/compiler.h
arch/alpha/kernel/machvec_impl.h
arch/alpha/kernel/traps.c
include/linux/blk_types.h
include/linux/tty.h