Re: [RFC] Dropping Alpha sparse mapping support from X

2009-09-04 Thread Maciej W. Rozycki
On Thu, 3 Sep 2009, Matt Turner wrote: > I'd like to drop support for non-BWX Alphas (EV4 and original EV5) > from X. These machines can't load/store to single bytes and require > special sparse memory mappings. > > The code required to select which functions (sparse, dense) is > convoluted, adds

Re: [RFC] Dropping Alpha sparse mapping support from X

2009-09-04 Thread Jeff Donsbach
I'm just curious. where is the problem code in question? You should Cc "gentoo-al...@lists.gentoo.org" too in case anyone over there might care (I would have since I was running Gentoo on mine at one time). -Original Message- From: Matt Turner Reply-to: Linux on Alpha processors T

Re: [RFC] Dropping Alpha sparse mapping support from X

2009-09-04 Thread Gianluca Bonetti
2009/9/3 Matt Turner : > Hi, > I'd like to drop support for non-BWX Alphas (EV4 and original EV5) > from X. These machines can't load/store to single bytes and require > special sparse memory mappings. > > The code required to select which functions (sparse, dense) is > convoluted, adds an extra la

Re: [RFC] Dropping Alpha sparse mapping support from X

2009-09-04 Thread Bob Tracy
On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 09:02:57AM +0100, Alan Hourihane wrote: > On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 21:50 -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 05:25:29PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > > On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 05:08:00PM -0400, Matt Turner wrote: > > > > I'd like to drop support for non-BWX

Re: [RFC] Dropping Alpha sparse mapping support from X

2009-09-04 Thread Daniel Franganillo
Alan Hourihane escribió: On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 21:50 -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 05:25:29PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 05:08:00PM -0400, Matt Turner wrote: I'd like to drop support for non-BWX Alphas (EV4 and original EV5) from X. These machines

Re: [RFC] Dropping Alpha sparse mapping support from X

2009-09-04 Thread Alan Hourihane
On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 21:50 -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: > On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 05:25:29PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 05:08:00PM -0400, Matt Turner wrote: > > > I'd like to drop support for non-BWX Alphas (EV4 and original EV5) > > > from X. These machines can't load/s