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Subject: Re: [patch V2 00/18] mm/highmem: Preemptible variant of kmap_atomic & friends
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2020 16:05:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201031160539.Horde.n5yNbG9LoUSWqtuPQW_h3w1@messagerie.c-s.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAK8P3a3FyKTHDSAPCyP8e7UA0LN3OvAatNK_vQ3tnBsdbou4sA@mail.gmail.com>
> There are also some users on 10+ year old 32-bit netbooks or
> business laptops, both x86 and Apple G4.
> The longest-lived 32-bit embedded systems with large memory
> (other than Arm) are probably NXP QorIQ P20xx/P40xx used in
> military VME bus systems, and low-end embedded systems based
> on Vortex86.
> I'm less worried about all of these because upstream kernel
> support for ppc32 and x86-32 is already bitrotting and they will
> likely get stuck on the last working kernel before the
> TI/Renesas/NXP Arm systems do.
>
Upstream kernel support for ppc32 is bitrotting, seriously ? What do
you mean exactly ?
ppc32 is actively supported, with recent addition of support of
hugepages, kasan, uaccess protection, VMAP stack, etc ...
Christophe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-31 15:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-29 22:18 Thomas Gleixner
2020-10-29 22:18 ` [patch V2 01/18] sched: Make migrate_disable/enable() independent of RT Thomas Gleixner
2020-10-29 22:18 ` [patch V2 02/18] mm/highmem: Un-EXPORT __kmap_atomic_idx() Thomas Gleixner
2020-10-29 22:18 ` [patch V2 03/18] highmem: Provide generic variant of kmap_atomic* Thomas Gleixner
2020-10-29 22:18 ` [patch V2 04/18] x86/mm/highmem: Use generic kmap atomic implementation Thomas Gleixner
2020-10-29 22:18 ` [patch V2 05/18] arc/mm/highmem: " Thomas Gleixner
2020-10-29 22:18 ` [patch V2 06/18] ARM: highmem: Switch to generic kmap atomic Thomas Gleixner
2020-10-29 22:18 ` [patch V2 07/18] csky/mm/highmem: " Thomas Gleixner
2020-10-29 22:18 ` [patch V2 08/18] microblaze/mm/highmem: " Thomas Gleixner
2020-10-29 22:18 ` [patch V2 09/18] mips/mm/highmem: " Thomas Gleixner
2020-10-29 22:18 ` [patch V2 10/18] nds32/mm/highmem: " Thomas Gleixner
2020-10-29 22:18 ` [patch V2 11/18] powerpc/mm/highmem: " Thomas Gleixner
2020-10-29 22:18 ` [patch V2 12/18] sparc/mm/highmem: " Thomas Gleixner
2020-10-29 22:18 ` [patch V2 13/18] xtensa/mm/highmem: " Thomas Gleixner
2020-10-29 22:18 ` [patch V2 14/18] mm/highmem: Remove the old kmap_atomic cruft Thomas Gleixner
2020-10-29 22:18 ` [patch V2 15/18] io-mapping: Cleanup atomic iomap Thomas Gleixner
2020-10-29 22:18 ` [patch V2 16/18] sched: highmem: Store local kmaps in task struct Thomas Gleixner
2020-10-29 22:18 ` [patch V2 17/18] mm/highmem: Provide kmap_local* Thomas Gleixner
2020-10-29 22:18 ` [patch V2 18/18] io-mapping: Provide iomap_local variant Thomas Gleixner
2020-10-29 23:11 ` [patch V2 00/18] mm/highmem: Preemptible variant of kmap_atomic & friends Linus Torvalds
2020-10-29 23:41 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-10-30 9:39 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-10-30 20:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-10-30 22:26 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-10-30 22:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-10-30 23:26 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-10-30 23:53 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-10-31 13:37 ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-10-31 15:05 ` Christophe Leroy [this message]
2020-10-31 21:33 ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-10-30 7:25 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-10-30 9:39 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-10-30 13:06 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-10-30 19:35 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-11-02 1:08 ` Thomas Gleixner
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