(Argh, this was sat in my outbox for over a week) On Thu, 25 Sep, at 05:38:50PM, Mark Salter wrote: > On Thu, 2014-09-25 at 22:18 +0100, Matt Fleming wrote: > > On Mon, 22 Sep, at 12:33:29PM, Mark Salter wrote: > > > > > > Is this still needed after commit da167ad7638759: > > > > > > rtc: ia64: allow other architectures to use EFI RTC > > > > Umm... we should really look at disabling this for x86, since the EFI > > time functions don't work on a bunch of machines I've got here. > > > > And it looks like someone enabled this driver and triggered an oops on > > their 32-bit EFI tablet, > > > > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=84241#c21 > > Previously, it depended on IA64. If it's not worth the trouble for > x86 then I'd say have it depend on !X86 also. Newer EFI-supporting > architectures are unlikely to have the same legacy issues as x86 > so I don't think it'll end up being an ever growing list. Yeah that's what I was thinking. For x86, it's the age old "Windows doesn't use it, so it was never validated" issue. I'll send an update. -- Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-efi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
