On Fri, Jul 12, 2024 at 04:19:39PM +0200, Frank Scheiner wrote: > On 12.07.24 15:32, Greg KH wrote: > > I'm confused, which commit should we add, or should we just revert what > > we have now? > > Sorry for the confusion. Let me try again: > > 1. efi: memmap: Move manipulation routines into x86 arch tree > > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git/commit/?h=linux-5.10.y&id=31e0721aeabde29371f624f56ce2f403508527a5 > > ...breaks the build for ia64, because it requires a header that does not > exist before 8ff059b8531f3b98e14f0461859fc7cdd95823e4 for ia64. > > 2. efi: ia64: move IA64-only declarations to new asm/efi.h header > > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=8ff059b8531f3b98e14f0461859fc7cdd95823e4 > > adds this header and fixes the ia64 build, see for example [1]. > > [1]: > https://github.com/linux-ia64/linux-stable-rc/actions/runs/9871144965#summary-27258970494 > > From my understanding 31e0721aeabde29371f624f56ce2f403508527a5 should > not be merged w/o 8ff059b8531f3b98e14f0461859fc7cdd95823e4, which also > seems to be the case for all other stable kernels from linux-5.12.y up. > > So 8ff059b8531f3b98e14f0461859fc7cdd95823e4 should be added, too, if > 31e0721aeabde29371f624f56ce2f403508527a5 stays in. Ok, thanks, now queued up. > > And I thought that ia64 was dead? > > No, actually it's alive and well - just currently outside of mainline - > but still in the stable kernels up to linux-6.6.y and for newer kernels > patched back in. If you want to check on our CI ([2]), all current > stable kernels build fine for ia64 and run in Ski - but linux-5.10.y > currently only because I manually added > 8ff059b8531f3b98e14f0461859fc7cdd95823e4 to the list of patches applied > by the CI. > > [2]: https://github.com/linux-ia64/linux-stable-rc/actions/runs/9901808825 Will be interesting to see how long it lasts, good luck! greg k-h
