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The Itanium architecture is obsolete, and an informal survey [0] reveals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>
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Commit a2225d931f75 ("autofs: remove left-over autofs4 stubs")
promised the removal of the fs/autofs/Kconfig fragment for AUTOFS4_FS
within a couple of releases, but five years later this still has not
happened yet, and AUTOFS4_FS is still enabled in 63 defconfigs.
Get rid of it mechanically:
git grep -l CONFIG_AUTOFS4_FS -- '*defconfig' |
xargs sed -i 's/AUTOFS4_FS/AUTOFS_FS/'
Also just remove the AUTOFS4_FS config option stub. Anybody who hasn't
regenerated their config file in the last five years will need to just
get the new name right when they do.
Signed-off-by: Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Clean up config files by:
- removing configs that were deleted in the past
- removing configs not in tree and without recently pending patches
- adding new configs that are replacements for old configs in the file
For some detailed information, see Link.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/kernel-janitors/20220929090645.1389-1-lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220929101441.32009-1-lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Commit 5d9db883761a ("efi: Add support for a UEFI variable filesystem")
dated Oct 5, 2012, introduced a new efivarfs pseudo-filesystem to
replace the efivars sysfs interface that was used up to that point to
expose EFI variables to user space.
The main problem with the sysfs interface was that it only supported up
to 1024 bytes of payload per file, whereas the underlying variables
themselves are only bounded by a platform specific per-variable and
global limit that is typically much higher than 1024 bytes.
The deprecated sysfs interface is only enabled on x86 and Itanium, other
EFI enabled architectures only support the efivarfs pseudo-filesystem.
So let's finally rip off the band aid, and drop the old interface
entirely. This will make it easier to refactor and clean up the
underlying infrastructure that is shared between efivars, efivarfs and
efi-pstore, and is long overdue for a makeover.
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
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DISCONTIGMEM was marked BROKEN in 5.11. Let's remove it.
Booted SPARSEMEM successfully on rx3600.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210404193440.2615358-1-slyfox@gentoo.org
Signed-off-by: Sergei Trofimovich <slyfox@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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The "oprofile" user-space tools don't use the kernel OPROFILE support
any more, and haven't in a long time. User-space has been converted to
the perf interfaces.
Also note that ia64 supports oprofile but not perf and profiling
shouldn't be working anyway currently.
Remove the old oprofile's architecture specific support.
Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Robert Richter <rric@kernel.org>
Acked-by: William Cohen <wcohen@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Switch the ia64 defconfigs to use the modern libata driver instead of
the soon to be removed legacy ide driver.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200911094936.1175688-1-hch@lst.de
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perfmon has been marked broken and thus been disabled for all builds
for more than two years. Remove it entirely.
Cc: Anant Thazhemadam <anant.thazhemadam@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Enthusiastically-ACKed-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200911094920.1173631-1-hch@lst.de
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There are two EFI RTC drivers, the original drivers/char/efirtc.c
driver and the more modern drivers/rtc/rtc-efi.c.
Both implement the same interface, but the new one does so
in a more portable way.
Move everything over to that one and remove the old one.
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200226224322.187960-1-alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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The only thing remaining of the machvecs is a few checks if we are
running on an SGI UV system. Replace those with the existing
is_uv_system() check that has been rewritten to simply check the
OEM ID directly.
That leaves us with a generic kernel that is as fast as the previous
DIG/ZX1/UV kernels, but can support all hardware. Support for UV
and the HP SBA IOMMU is now optional based on new config options.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190813072514.23299-27-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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Prompted by a change to drivers/scsi/Kconfig which used to do a
"select NET" but now does a "depends on NET". This meant that some
configurations ended up without CONFIG_NET=y
Signed-off-by Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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It no longer occurs in Kconfig.
USB: remove CONFIG_USB_DEVICEFS(fb28d58b) leaked remove defconfig.
Signed-off-by: Naoki MATSUMOTO <nekomatu+linux@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Use the defconfig files generated by "make savedefconfig" for
remaining defconfig files.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
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arch/arm config files were slimmed down using a python script
(See commit c2330e286f68f1c408b4aa6515ba49d57f05beae comment)
Do the same for ia64 so we can have sleek & trim looking
defconfig files too.
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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This has been broken since May 2008 when Al Viro killed altroot support.
Since nobody has complained, it would appear that there are no users of
this code (A plausible theory since the main OSVs that support ia64 prefer
to use the IA32-EL software emulation).
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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Now that all EEPROM drivers live in the same place, let's harmonize
their symbol names.
Also fix eeprom's dependencies, it definitely needs sysfs, and is no
longer experimental after many years in the kernel tree.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Acked-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
Cc: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
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The slab allocator was changed in 2.6.23 to default to SLUB. However,
the config files in arch/ia64/configs still use SLAB. Switch them to SLUB.
Added same change to arch/ia64/defconfig ... Tony
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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This is a merge of Peter Keilty's initial patch (which was
revived by Bob Picco) for this with Hidetoshi Seto's fixes
and scaling improvements.
Acked-by: Bob Picco <bob.picco@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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Bring all ia64 config files up to date
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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PNP and PNPACPI turned on
i8042 recently changed from ACPI to PNP detection. Without PNP, it
probes legacy I/O ports for the keyboard controller, which causes an
MCA on HP boxes.
Also, I'm about to remove 8250_acpi.c, so we'll need PNP to detect
non-PCI serial ports. Until 8250_acpi.c is removed, some systems
will see serial ports reported twice (once from 8250_acpi.c and again
from 8250_pnp.c). This is harmless.
PNPACPI is still marked EXPERIMENTAL, but I'm not aware of any
outstanding issues on ia64.
IDE_GENERIC turned off (except for SGI simulator, all ia64 IDE is PCI)
ide-generic probes compiled-in legacy I/O ports for IDE devices, which
again causes an MCA. It would be nicer to just get rid of all the
legacy junk from include/asm-ia64/ide.h, but that is a bit riskier
because it could break ide-cs and the HDIO_REGISTER_HWIF ioctl
(http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0508.2/0049.html).
Here's the essence of the patch:
-# CONFIG_PNP is not set
+CONFIG_PNP=y
+CONFIG_PNPACPI=y
-CONFIG_IDE_GENERIC=y
+# CONFIG_IDE_GENERIC is not set
Tested on tiger, bigsur, and zx1.
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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Delete the ability to build an ACPI kernel that does
not include PCI support. When such a machine is created
and it requires a tuned kernel, send a patch.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1364
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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Build issues were mostly in the ACPI=n case -- don't do that.
Select ACPI from IA64_GENERIC.
Add some missing dependencies on ACPI.
Mark BLACKLIST_YEAR and some laptop-only ACPI drivers
as X86-only. Let me know when you get an IA64 Laptop.
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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it is a synonym for CONFIG_ACPI
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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it is a synonym for CONFIG_ACPI
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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it has been a synonym for CONFIG_ACPI since 2.6.12
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.
Let it rip!
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