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The Itanium architecture is obsolete, and an informal survey [0] reveals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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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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The sn_coherency_id symbol isn't used anywhere, remove it.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190813072514.23299-23-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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The simulator support was marked as temporary since the initial commit,
so drop it more than 10 years later.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190813072514.23299-22-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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The SGI SN2 (early Altix) is a very non-standard IA64 platform that was
at the very high end of even IA64 hardware, and has been discontinued
a long time ago. Remove it because there no upstream users left, and it
has magic hooks all over the kernel.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190813072514.23299-16-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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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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Replace EXTRA_CFLAGS with ccflags-y and EXTRA_AFLAGS with asflags-y.
Signed-off-by: matt mooney <mfm@muteddisk.com>
Acked-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
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n_val should be assigned to n_val attribute of HUB chip.
Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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Add partition id, coherence id, and region size to UV to
make life simpler for drivers shared between sn2 & uv.
Signed-off-by: Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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Fix build error in CONFIG_IA64_SGI_UV config. (GENERIC builds
are ok).
Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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This patch adds the basic IA64 machvec infrastructure to support
the SGI "UV" platform.
Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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