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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH 1/5] arch: Remove Itanium (IA-64) architecture
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@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>

Trying again since the previous message bounced with "message too long".

Acked-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>

Sorry for the noise for anyone receiving this twice.

Guenter

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