From cf8e8658100d4eae80ce9b21f7a81cb024dd5057 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ard Biesheuvel Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2022 15:54:33 +0200 Subject: arch: Remove Itanium (IA-64) architecture The Itanium architecture is obsolete, and an informal survey [0] reveals that any residual use of Itanium hardware in production is mostly HP-UX or OpenVMS based.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 Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel --- arch/ia64/include/asm/iosapic.h | 106 ---------------------------------------- 1 file changed, 106 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 arch/ia64/include/asm/iosapic.h (limited to 'arch/ia64/include/asm/iosapic.h') diff --git a/arch/ia64/include/asm/iosapic.h b/arch/ia64/include/asm/iosapic.h deleted file mode 100644 index a91aeb413e17..000000000000 --- a/arch/ia64/include/asm/iosapic.h +++ /dev/null @@ -1,106 +0,0 @@ -/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */ -#ifndef __ASM_IA64_IOSAPIC_H -#define __ASM_IA64_IOSAPIC_H - -#define IOSAPIC_REG_SELECT 0x0 -#define IOSAPIC_WINDOW 0x10 -#define IOSAPIC_EOI 0x40 - -#define IOSAPIC_VERSION 0x1 - -/* - * Redirection table entry - */ -#define IOSAPIC_RTE_LOW(i) (0x10+i*2) -#define IOSAPIC_RTE_HIGH(i) (0x11+i*2) - -#define IOSAPIC_DEST_SHIFT 16 - -/* - * Delivery mode - */ -#define IOSAPIC_DELIVERY_SHIFT 8 -#define IOSAPIC_FIXED 0x0 -#define IOSAPIC_LOWEST_PRIORITY 0x1 -#define IOSAPIC_PMI 0x2 -#define IOSAPIC_NMI 0x4 -#define IOSAPIC_INIT 0x5 -#define IOSAPIC_EXTINT 0x7 - -/* - * Interrupt polarity - */ -#define IOSAPIC_POLARITY_SHIFT 13 -#define IOSAPIC_POL_HIGH 0 -#define IOSAPIC_POL_LOW 1 - -/* - * Trigger mode - */ -#define IOSAPIC_TRIGGER_SHIFT 15 -#define IOSAPIC_EDGE 0 -#define IOSAPIC_LEVEL 1 - -/* - * Mask bit - */ - -#define IOSAPIC_MASK_SHIFT 16 -#define IOSAPIC_MASK (1<