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authorArd Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>2022-10-20 15:54:33 +0200
committerArd Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>2023-09-11 10:13:17 +0200
commitcf8e8658100d4eae80ce9b21f7a81cb024dd5057 (patch)
tree31d3b640bebf97c33d354768fc44dfd532c2df81 /drivers/iommu
parentacpi: Provide ia64 dummy implementation of acpi_proc_quirk_mwait_check() (diff)
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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The Itanium architecture is obsolete, and an informal survey [0] reveals that any residual use of Itanium hardware in production is mostly HP-UX or OpenVMS based.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>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/iommu')
-rw-r--r--drivers/iommu/Kconfig4
-rw-r--r--drivers/iommu/intel/Kconfig2
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/iommu/Kconfig b/drivers/iommu/Kconfig
index 2b12b583ef4b..7f04491ca5f0 100644
--- a/drivers/iommu/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/iommu/Kconfig
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ config IOMMU_DEBUGFS
choice
prompt "IOMMU default domain type"
depends on IOMMU_API
- default IOMMU_DEFAULT_DMA_LAZY if X86 || IA64
+ default IOMMU_DEFAULT_DMA_LAZY if X86
default IOMMU_DEFAULT_DMA_STRICT
help
Choose the type of IOMMU domain used to manage DMA API usage by
@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ config OF_IOMMU
# IOMMU-agnostic DMA-mapping layer
config IOMMU_DMA
- def_bool ARM64 || IA64 || X86
+ def_bool ARM64 || X86
select DMA_OPS
select IOMMU_API
select IOMMU_IOVA
diff --git a/drivers/iommu/intel/Kconfig b/drivers/iommu/intel/Kconfig
index 2e56bd79f589..119d2c57a48e 100644
--- a/drivers/iommu/intel/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/iommu/intel/Kconfig
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ config DMAR_DEBUG
config INTEL_IOMMU
bool "Support for Intel IOMMU using DMA Remapping Devices"
- depends on PCI_MSI && ACPI && (X86 || IA64)
+ depends on PCI_MSI && ACPI && X86
select DMA_OPS
select IOMMU_API
select IOMMU_IOVA