Re: [PATCH] ACPI: processor: Move MWAIT quirk out of acpi_processor.c

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Tue Aug 29 2023 - 11:06:58 EST


On Tue, Aug 29, 2023 at 07:53:21AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 29, 2023 at 04:38:33PM +0200, Wilczynski, Michal wrote:

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> Or just drop it. From Ard Biesheuvel's e-mail sent to 0-day:
>
> > Hello all,
> >
> > The Linux community is currently in the process of deprecating the
> > Itanium IA-64 architecture, which no longer has a maintainer or any
> > actual users.
> >
> > We aim to remove it entirely from the Linux tree before the end of the
> > year, but one of the first steps is to stop build testing it - there
> > is really no point any longer in spending any cycles on this, and it
> > is definitely undesirable to inform developers by email if their
> > changes result in any build issues on IA-64.
> >
> > So please remove IA64 from the set of architectures that are build
> > tested by LKP.
>
> This is from the 0-day commit log disabling ia64 build tests. I have now
> disabled ia64 in my build tests as well.

Oh, nice! Thank you for digging this up!

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko