Re: [RFC PATCH 1/5] arch: Remove Itanium (IA-64) architecture
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- To: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/5] arch: Remove Itanium (IA-64) architecture
- From: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2023 08:58:32 -0800
- Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>, Tony Luck <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx>, Jessica Clarke <jrtc27@xxxxxxxxxx>, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Marc Zyngier <maz@xxxxxxxxxx>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, linux-ia64@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- In-reply-to: <20230215100008.2565237-2-ardb@kernel.org>
- References: <20230215100008.2565237-1-ardb@kernel.org> <20230215100008.2565237-2-ardb@kernel.org>
On Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 11:00:04AM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> Itanium is the original architecture for which EFI was developed, and
> the way Linux supports it deviates significantly from other
> architectures.
>
> So it is anyone's guess whether the ongoing maintenance and developement
> of the EFI subsystem has regressed Itanium or not - QEMU no longer
> implements support for it, and so there is zero test coverage using
> actual hardware.
>
> Note that the Intel firmware team themselves already removed all IA-64
> support from the Tianocore/EDK2 reference implementation of EFI in 2018,
> so let's follow suit, and drop IA-64 from Linux as well.
>
> Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@xxxxxxxxxx>
Trying again since the previous message bounced with "message too long".
Acked-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sorry for the noise for anyone receiving this twice.
Guenter
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