Re: anyone using Itanium B-step support?

David Mosberger
2005-01-28T06:17:04Z

>>>>> On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 18:32:49 -0800, James E Wilson <wilson@tuliptree.org> said:

>> I would have done it myself but there was no "Signed-off-by"
>> trailer in your patch so I think you may need to resend the patch
>> anyhow

James> I know nothing about submitting linux kernel patches. My
James> patch is completely untested, by the way, as I doubt that I
James> can build a working kernel without help. It was more a
James> suggestion than an actual patch.

Ah, OK, in that case, here is a (compile-)tested patch.

Tony, please apply.

--david

ia64: Remove Merced B-step support

Remove left-over support for Merced B-step CPUs as suggested by Jim
Wilson.

Signed-off-by: David Mosberger-Tang <davidm@hpl.hp.com>

=== arch/ia64/Kconfig 1.85 vs edited ==--- 1.85/arch/ia64/Kconfig 2005-01-24 13:41:13 -08:00
+++ edited/arch/ia64/Kconfig 2005-01-27 22:05:34 -08:00
@@ -158,14 +158,6 @@
depends on ITANIUM
default y

-config ITANIUM_BSTEP_SPECIFIC
- bool "Itanium B-step specific code"
- depends on ITANIUM
- help
- Select this option to build a kernel for an Itanium prototype system
- with a B-step CPU. You have a B-step CPU if the "revision" field in
- /proc/cpuinfo has a value in the range from 1 to 4.
-
# align cache-sensitive data to 128 bytes
config IA64_L1_CACHE_SHIFT
int
=== arch/ia64/Makefile 1.74 vs edited ==--- 1.74/arch/ia64/Makefile 2005-01-14 15:52:52 -08:00
+++ edited/arch/ia64/Makefile 2005-01-27 22:05:43 -08:00
@@ -46,8 +46,6 @@
cflags-$(CONFIG_MCKINLEY) += -mtune=mckinley
endif

-cflags-$(CONFIG_ITANIUM_BSTEP_SPECIFIC) += -mb-step
-
CFLAGS += $(cflags-y)
head-y := arch/ia64/kernel/head.o arch/ia64/kernel/init_task.o

=== arch/ia64/configs/bigsur_defconfig 1.2 vs edited ==--- 1.2/arch/ia64/configs/bigsur_defconfig 2004-11-30 08:48:16 -08:00
+++ edited/arch/ia64/configs/bigsur_defconfig 2005-01-27 22:05:20 -08:00
@@ -73,7 +73,6 @@
CONFIG_IA64_PAGE_SIZE_16KB=y
# CONFIG_IA64_PAGE_SIZE_64KB is not set
CONFIG_IA64_BRL_EMU=y
-# CONFIG_ITANIUM_BSTEP_SPECIFIC is not set
CONFIG_IA64_L1_CACHE_SHIFT=6
# CONFIG_NUMA is not set
# CONFIG_VIRTUAL_MEM_MAP is not set