Messages in this thread | | | From | Ard Biesheuvel <> | Date | Wed, 15 Feb 2023 17:59:35 +0100 | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH 1/5] arch: Remove Itanium (IA-64) architecture |
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On Wed, 15 Feb 2023 at 17:58, Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> wrote: > > 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. >
Thanks, and this is my fault really - I used the -D option to omit the pre-images but the patch is still >100k :-(
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