On Thu, 4 Feb 2021 at 09:26, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi Ard! > > On 1/18/21 1:49 PM, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > > Move some EFI related declarations that are only referenced on IA64 to > > a new asm/efi.h arch header. > > I will test these changes later this week. I guess they will make it easier > to drop ia64 support from the kernel if that gets decided in the foreseeable > future. > Hi John, That is one aspect of it. Another aspect is that the lack of a asm/efi.h header created some problems in the past, given that all other EFI architectures do have it. But the most important reason is really that arch-specific definitions for an obsolete architecture should not be visible in other builds. -- Ard.
