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The Itanium architecture is obsolete, and an informal survey [0] reveals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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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 IOC4 is a multi-function chip seen on SGI SN2 and some SGI MIPS
systems. This removes the base driver, which while not having an SN2
Kconfig dependency was only for sub-drivers that had one.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190813072514.23299-15-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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The IOC3 is a multi-function chip seen on SGI SN2 and some SGI
MIPS systems. This removes the last bit of SN2 specific support,
while the bits used by the mips ports are still around (and being
substantially rewritten at the moment).
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190813072514.23299-14-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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The SGI SN2 support is about to be removed. Remove this driver that
depends on the SN2 support.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190813072514.23299-9-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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The SGI SN2 support is about to be removed. Remove this driver that
depends on the SN2 support.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190813072514.23299-8-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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The SGI SN2 support is about to be removed. Remove this driver that
depends on the SN2 support.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190813072514.23299-7-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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The SGI SN2 support is about to be removed. Remove this driver that
depends on the SN2 support.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190813072514.23299-5-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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The SGI SN2 support is about to be removed. Remove this driver that
depends on the SN2 support.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190813072514.23299-4-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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The SGI SN2 support is about to be removed. Remove this driver that
depends on the SN2 support.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190813072514.23299-3-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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The SGI SN2 support is about to be removed. Remove this driver that
depends on the SN2 support.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190813072514.23299-2-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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Convert CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PCI from tristate to bool. This only affects
the hotplug core; several of the hotplug drivers can still be modules.
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Acked-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
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commit 7c5763b845 (drivers:misc: Remove MISC_DEVICES config option) removed
CONFIG_MISC_DEVICES option, so remove the occurrences from the config files
as well.
Signed-off-by: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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Jeff Kirsher's reorganization of network drivers means that we need
to choose CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_INTEL before options like CONFIG_E100
and CONFIG_E1000 become visible. Fix the minimized ia64 config
files so that we continue to have network drivers in the kernels
that they build.
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> wrote:
> While working on an defconfig (arm/mx27) I noticed that just updating
> it results in removing CONFIG_EEPROM_AT24=y. The reason is that
> since commit
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> v2.6.36-5965-g5f2365d (misc devices: do not enable by default)
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> MISC_DEVICES isn't enabled anymore by default. So all defconfigs that
> have CONFIG_SOME_SYMBOL=y (or =m) (with SOME_SYMBOL depending on
> MISC_DEVICES) but not CONFIG_MISC_DEVICES=y suffer from the same
> problem.
Reported-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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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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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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Update configuration files with new CONFIG option.
Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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Turn on CONFIG_PNPACPI. I recently removed 8250_acpi.c. All devices
previously claimed by 8250_acpi.c should now be claimed by 8250_pnp.c.
This depends on having CONFIG_PNPACPI so ACPI devices show up as PNP
devices.
All other ia64 defconfigs either have CONFIG_PNPACPI already, or
don't have 8250 support turned on at all.
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@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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Adds the ability to disability packet split at compile time and use the legacy receive path on PCI express hardware. Made this a CONFIG option and modified the Kconfig, to reflect the new option.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John Ronciak <john.ronciak@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
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Add driver support for a 2 port PCI IOC3-based serial card on Altix boxes:
This is a re-submission. On the original submission I was asked to
organize the code so that the MIPS ioc3 ethernet and serial parts could be
used with this driver. Stanislaw Skowronek was kind enough to provide the
shim layer for this - thanks Stanislaw. This patch includes the shim layer
and the Altix PCI ioc3 serial driver. The MIPS merged ioc3 ethernet and
serial support is forthcoming.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Gefre <pfg@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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gensparse_defconfig is a config generated file for SPARSEMEM and GENERIC
kernel configuration (defconfig).
Signed-off-by: Bob Picco <bob.picco@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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