Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 15 Feb 2023 08:58:32 -0800 | From | Guenter Roeck <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH 1/5] arch: Remove Itanium (IA-64) architecture |
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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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