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20-Oct-2022 |
Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> |
arch: Remove Itanium (IA-64) architecture The Itanium architecture is obsolete, and an informal survey [0] reveals that any residual use of Itanium hardware in production is mostly HP-UX or OpenVMS based.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 <tony.luck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
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05-Oct-2020 |
Mike Travis <mike.travis@hpe.com> |
x86/platform/uv: Update Copyrights to conform to HPE standards Add Copyrights to those files that have been updated for UV5 changes. Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <mike.travis@hpe.com> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201005203929.148656-14-mike.travis@hpe.com
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06-Oct-2020 |
Mike Travis <mike.travis@hpe.com> |
drivers/misc/sgi-xp: Adjust references in UV kernel modules Remove the define is_uv() is_uv_system and just use the latter as is. This removes a conflict with a new symbol in the generated uv_mmrs.h file (is_uv()). Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <mike.travis@hpe.com> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Dimitri Sivanich <dimitri.sivanich@hpe.com> Reviewed-by: Steve Wahl <steve.wahl@hpe.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201005203929.148656-4-mike.travis@hpe.com
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13-Aug-2019 |
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> |
ia64: remove support for machvecs The only thing remaining of the machvecs is a few checks if we are running on an SGI UV system. Replace those with the existing is_uv_system() check that has been rewritten to simply check the OEM ID directly. That leaves us with a generic kernel that is as fast as the previous DIG/ZX1/UV kernels, but can support all hardware. Support for UV and the HP SBA IOMMU is now optional based on new config options. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190813072514.23299-27-hch@lst.de Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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13-Aug-2019 |
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> |
misc/sgi-xp: remove SGI SN2 support Note this also marks xp broken on ia64 now, as the UV support, which was disable in generic kernels before actually never compiled due to undefined uv_gpa_to_soc_phys_ram and uv_gpa_in_mmr_space symbols since at least commit c2c9f1157414 ("x86: uv: update XPC to handle updated BIOS interface"). Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190813072514.23299-11-hch@lst.de Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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15-Dec-2009 |
Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com> |
x86: uv: update XPC to handle updated BIOS interface The UV BIOS has moved the location of some of their pointers to the "partition reserved page" from memory into a uv hub MMR. The GRU does not support bcopy operations from MMR space so we need to special case the MMR addresses using VLOAD operations. Additionally, the BIOS call for registering a message queue watchlist has removed the 'blade' value and eliminated the structure that was being passed in. This is also reflected in this patch. Signed-off-by: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com> Cc: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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15-Dec-2009 |
Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com> |
x86: uv: xpc needs to provide an abstraction for uv_gpa Provide an SGI SN2/UV agnositic method for converting a global physical address into a socket physical address. Signed-off-by: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com> Cc: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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05-Nov-2008 |
Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com> |
sgi-xp: define xp_partition_id and xp_region_size Define xp_partition_id and xp_region_size to their correct values. Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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05-Nov-2008 |
Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com> |
sgi-xp: define xp_expand_memprotect() and xp_restrict_memprotect() Define xp_expand_memprotect() and xp_restrict_memprotect() so they can be tailered to the hardware they are run on. Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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29-Jul-2008 |
Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com> |
sgi-xp: setup the activate GRU message queue Setup the activate GRU message queue that is used for partition activation and channel connection on UV systems. Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com> Cc: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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29-Jul-2008 |
Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com> |
sgi-xp: add usage of GRU driver by xpc_remote_memcpy() Add UV support to xpc_remote_memcpy(), which involves interfacing to the GRU driver. Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com> Cc: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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29-Jul-2008 |
Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com> |
sgi-xp: eliminate '>>>' in comments Comments in /drivers/misc/sgi-xp has been using '>>>' as a means to draw attention to something that needs to be done or considered. To avoid colliding with git rejects, '>>>' will now be replaced by '!!!' to indicate something to do, and by '???' to indicate something to be considered. Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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29-Jul-2008 |
Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com> |
sgi-xp: create a common xp_remote_memcpy() function Create a common remote memcpy function that maps to what the hardware booted supports. Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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29-Jul-2008 |
Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com> |
sgi-xp: support runtime selection of xp_max_npartitions Support runtime selection of the max number of partitions based on the hardware being run on. Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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