From: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>,
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>,
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
Jessica Clarke <jrtc27@jrtc27.com>,
Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>, Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>,
"linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org" <linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] Retire IA64/Itanium support
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2023 07:04:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y+25dZiA+xnZRgVX@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHk-=wj9RkLN+GpYcFmsd8tze6zYL7MMkNpvdKbETQnqYm+Hwg@mail.gmail.com>
Hi Linus,
On Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 12:08:28PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 11:43 AM Luck, Tony <tony.luck@intel.com> wrote:
> >
> > Maybe you don't see others pain? I added Al Viro ... perhaps
> > he'll replay some of his thoughts from trying to make signals
> > and other stuff work correctly on ia64.
>
> Well, as long as it's ia64-specific, I'll just go "hey, it was Al's
> choice to look at that code".
>
> IOW, I'm more worried about "ia64 makes it a pain to make _generic_ changes".
>
> IOW, doing something like this:
>
> git log -p --no-merges --since=1.year arch/ia64/
>
> to see what kind of pain ia64 parts of patches have caused, about a
> third of them are that "look, somebody cared about ia64 explicitly".
I remember that when I was doing cleanups of mm initialization, ia64
required special care several times.
> That said, it's entirely possible I've missed some particular painpoint.
The largest painpoint IMO is absence of any ability to test ia64 except
sending patches to Adrian in a hope he has time to give them a whirl.
> Linus
--
Sincerely yours,
Mike.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-02-16 5:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-02-15 10:00 [RFC PATCH 0/5] Retire IA64/Itanium support Ard Biesheuvel
2023-02-15 10:00 ` [RFC PATCH 1/5] arch: Remove Itanium (IA-64) architecture Ard Biesheuvel
2023-02-15 16:55 ` Guenter Roeck
2023-02-15 16:58 ` Guenter Roeck
2023-02-15 16:59 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2023-02-15 10:00 ` [RFC PATCH 2/5] kernel: Drop IA64 support from sig_fault handlers Ard Biesheuvel
2023-02-15 10:19 ` Arnd Bergmann
2023-02-15 11:13 ` Arnd Bergmann
2023-02-15 11:22 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2023-02-15 12:46 ` Arnd Bergmann
2023-02-15 10:00 ` [RFC PATCH 3/5] Documentation: Drop IA64 from feature descriptions Ard Biesheuvel
2023-02-15 10:00 ` [RFC PATCH 4/5] lib/raid6: Drop IA64 support Ard Biesheuvel
2023-02-15 10:00 ` [RFC PATCH 5/5] Documentation: Drop or replace remaining mentions of IA64 Ard Biesheuvel
2023-02-15 10:17 ` [RFC PATCH 0/5] Retire IA64/Itanium support John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2023-02-15 19:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2023-02-15 19:42 ` Luck, Tony
2023-02-15 20:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2023-02-15 23:13 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2023-02-22 21:52 ` matoro
2023-02-16 5:04 ` Mike Rapoport [this message]
2023-02-15 23:09 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2023-02-15 16:50 ` Palmer Dabbelt
2023-02-15 17:00 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2023-02-15 18:20 ` Palmer Dabbelt
2023-03-17 22:55 ` Florian Weimer
2023-05-12 14:45 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2023-05-12 14:58 ` Florian Weimer
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