linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ACPI: processor: Move MWAIT quirk out of acpi

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Message-ID: <ZO4JTIiygSQf+eKC@smile.fi.intel.com>
Date:   Tue, 29 Aug 2023 18:05:48 +0300
From:   Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...el.com>
To:     Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
Cc:     "Wilczynski, Michal" <michal.wilczynski@...el.com>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>,
        artem.bityutskiy@...ux.intel.com, mingo@...hat.com, bp@...en8.de,
        dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com, hpa@...or.com, lenb@...nel.org,
        jgross@...e.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, x86@...nel.org,
        "Rafael J . Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ACPI: processor: Move MWAIT quirk out of acpi_processor.c

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:

[ ... ]

> 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