On Wed, 5 Aug 2026, Jeffrey Law wrote: > I haven't gotten a clean bootstrap & regression on alpha in about a month and > my tester only runs in the default mode, so I don't think it's really going to > exercise this meaningfully or give us any sense of LRA on alpha state going > forward. Given it's a dead architecture one possibility that we should at > least consider is deprecating the non-BWX variants at which point we could > convert to LRA and having bootstrap/regression testing in place.
FWIW I mean to maintain non-BWX support, although the effort has been stuck on higher priority stuff. For instance I haven't got to reposting the Linux kernel emulation parts, which need to go in first if we want to keep this going (unlike with the VAX backend where there's no choice, I'm not going to switch to NetBSD here). Maciej
