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authorArd Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>2022-10-20 15:54:33 +0200
committerArd Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>2023-09-11 08:13:17 +0000
commitcf8e8658100d4eae80ce9b21f7a81cb024dd5057 (patch)
tree31d3b640bebf97c33d354768fc44dfd532c2df81 /drivers/char/hpet.c
parenta0334bf78b95532cec54f56b53e8ae1bfe7e1ca1 (diff)
arch: Remove Itanium (IA-64) architecture
The Itanium architecture is obsolete, and an informal survey [0] reveals that any residual use of Itanium hardware in production is mostly HP-UX or OpenVMS based. The use of Linux on Itanium appears to be limited to enthusiasts that occasionally boot a fresh Linux kernel to see whether things are still working as intended, and perhaps to churn out some distro packages that are rarely used in practice. None of the original companies behind Itanium still produce or support any hardware or software for the architecture, and it is listed as 'Orphaned' in the MAINTAINERS file, as apparently, none of the engineers that contributed on behalf of those companies (nor anyone else, for that matter) have been willing to support or maintain the architecture upstream or even be responsible for applying the odd fix. The Intel firmware team removed all IA-64 support from the Tianocore/EDK2 reference implementation of EFI in 2018. (Itanium is the original architecture for which EFI was developed, and the way Linux supports it deviates significantly from other architectures.) Some distros, such as Debian and Gentoo, still maintain [unofficial] ia64 ports, but many have dropped support years ago. While the argument is being made [1] that there is a 'for the common good' angle to being able to build and run existing projects such as the Grid Community Toolkit [2] on Itanium for interoperability testing, the fact remains that none of those projects are known to be deployed on Linux/ia64, and very few people actually have access to such a system in the first place. Even if there were ways imaginable in which Linux/ia64 could be put to good use today, what matters is whether anyone is actually doing that, and this does not appear to be the case. There are no emulators widely available, and so boot testing Itanium is generally infeasible for ordinary contributors. GCC still supports IA-64 but its compile farm [3] no longer has any IA-64 machines. GLIBC would like to get rid of IA-64 [4] too because it would permit some overdue code cleanups. In summary, the benefits to the ecosystem of having IA-64 be part of it are mostly theoretical, whereas the maintenance overhead of keeping it supported is real. So let's rip off the band aid, and remove the IA-64 arch code entirely. This follows the timeline proposed by the Debian/ia64 maintainer [5], which removes support in a controlled manner, leaving IA-64 in a known good state in the most recent LTS release. Other projects will follow once the kernel support is removed. [0] https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAMj1kXFCMh_578jniKpUtx_j8ByHnt=s7S+yQ+vGbKt9ud7+kQ@mail.gmail.com/ [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/0075883c-7c51-00f5-2c2d-5119c1820410@web.de/ [2] https://gridcf.org/gct-docs/latest/index.html [3] https://cfarm.tetaneutral.net/machines/list/ [4] https://lore.kernel.org/all/87bkiilpc4.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de/ [5] https://lore.kernel.org/all/ff58a3e76e5102c94bb5946d99187b358def688a.camel@physik.fu-berlin.de/ Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/char/hpet.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/char/hpet.c30
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 30 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/hpet.c b/drivers/char/hpet.c
index ee71376f174b..3b2159416e62 100644
--- a/drivers/char/hpet.c
+++ b/drivers/char/hpet.c
@@ -64,25 +64,6 @@
static DEFINE_MUTEX(hpet_mutex); /* replaces BKL */
static u32 hpet_nhpet, hpet_max_freq = HPET_USER_FREQ;
-/* This clocksource driver currently only works on ia64 */
-#ifdef CONFIG_IA64
-static void __iomem *hpet_mctr;
-
-static u64 read_hpet(struct clocksource *cs)
-{
- return (u64)read_counter((void __iomem *)hpet_mctr);
-}
-
-static struct clocksource clocksource_hpet = {
- .name = "hpet",
- .rating = 250,
- .read = read_hpet,
- .mask = CLOCKSOURCE_MASK(64),
- .flags = CLOCK_SOURCE_IS_CONTINUOUS,
-};
-static struct clocksource *hpet_clocksource;
-#endif
-
/* A lock for concurrent access by app and isr hpet activity. */
static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(hpet_lock);
@@ -907,17 +888,6 @@ int hpet_alloc(struct hpet_data *hdp)
hpetp->hp_delta = hpet_calibrate(hpetp);
-/* This clocksource driver currently only works on ia64 */
-#ifdef CONFIG_IA64
- if (!hpet_clocksource) {
- hpet_mctr = (void __iomem *)&hpetp->hp_hpet->hpet_mc;
- clocksource_hpet.archdata.fsys_mmio = hpet_mctr;
- clocksource_register_hz(&clocksource_hpet, hpetp->hp_tick_freq);
- hpetp->hp_clocksource = &clocksource_hpet;
- hpet_clocksource = &clocksource_hpet;
- }
-#endif
-
return 0;
}