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2023-09-11	arch: Remove Itanium (IA-64) architecture	Ard Biesheuvel
	The Itanium architecture is obsolete, and an informal survey [0] reveals that any residual use of Itanium hardware in production is mostly HP-UX or OpenVMS based.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>
2019-06-19	treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 234	Thomas Gleixner
	Based on 1 normalized pattern(s): this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify it under the terms of the gnu general public license version 2 as published by the free software foundation this program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful but without any warranty without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose see the gnu general public license for more details you should have received a copy of the gnu general public license along with this program if not see http www gnu org licenses extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier GPL-2.0-only has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 503 file(s). Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Alexios Zavras <alexios.zavras@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Allison Randal <allison@lohutok.net> Reviewed-by: Enrico Weigelt <info@metux.net> Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190602204653.811534538@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-01-24	ia64: ensure exception table search users include extable.h	Paul Gortmaker
	We start with a delete of a duplicate prototype in asm/exception.h that no longer needs to exist, as it duplicates content in extable.h and since that header is so small, there is no point trying to avoid using it. Then we make sure anyone using search_exception_tables directly or via the ia64_done_with_exception macro has included extable.h In the process, we remove an include of moduleloader.h that was apparently not really required; it would have been fetching in module.h and hence the previous location of the exception search function prototypes, but we need not rely on that anymore. Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2017-01-24	ia64: move ia64_done_with_exception out of asm/uaccess.h	Paul Gortmaker
	Move ia64_done_with_exception out of asm/uaccess.h (which is widely used) and into asm/exception.h (like ARM has) and then ensure the few callers of it include this new header. Most of the other C content in asm files is implemented in macro form. So we do that conversion at the same time as the move. There are two C exception prototypes that move along with the macro. One of them will become redundant when we switch over to using the <linux/extable.h> instead of <linux/module.h> header in a subsequent commit. Also relocate a couple of the automated asm --> linux uaccess conversions to preserve the linux and asm independent grouping, since we are in the file at that location anyway. Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>