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    alpha: drop pre-EV56 support · a4184174
    Arnd Bergmann authored
    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.htmlAcked-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
    Acked-by: default avatarMatt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
    a4184174
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