powerpc: Always select HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS
Currently powerpc selects HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS in all cases but one. The exception is if the kernel is being built little endian and explicitly targeted for Power7. The combination of Power7 and little endian was never commercially supported, or widely used. It was only ever possible on bare metal machines, using unofficial firmware, or in qemu guests hosted on those machines. The bare metal firmware support for Power7 was removed in 2019, see skiboot commit 16b7ae64 ("Remove POWER7 and POWER7+ support"). Little endian kernel builds were switched to target Power8 or later in 2018, in commit a73657ea ("powerpc/64: Add GENERIC_CPU support for little endian"). Since then it's only been possible to boot a Power7/LE kernel by explicitly building for Power7. So drop the exception and always select HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS. If anyone does still have a Power7/LE machine it should hopefully continue to boot, just with some performance penality, and if not they can report a bug. Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220916131523.319123-1-mpe@ellerman.id.au
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