Re: [PATCH 2.6.21 1/3] x86_64: EFI64 support

Eric W. Biederman
2007-06-01T18:45:25Z

Chandramouli Narayanan <mouli@linux.intel.com> writes:
>
> diff -uprN -X linux-2.6.21rc7-git2-orig/Documentation/dontdiff
> linux-2.6.21rc7-git2-orig/drivers/char/Kconfig
> linux-2.6.21rc7-git2-uefi-finaltest/drivers/char/Kconfig
> --- linux-2.6.21rc7-git2-orig/drivers/char/Kconfig 2007-04-19 12:39:39.000000000
> -0700
> +++ linux-2.6.21rc7-git2-uefi-finaltest/drivers/char/Kconfig 2007-04-19
> 13:01:02.000000000 -0700
> @@ -837,7 +837,7 @@ config GEN_RTC_X
>
> config EFI_RTC
> bool "EFI Real Time Clock Services"
> - depends on IA64
> + depends on IA64 || X86_64

Please remove this.

We have an architecturally defined hardware realtime clock
on x86_64. We don't need EFI to abstract it for us.

My condolences to hardware manufacturers that can't follow a
20 year old standard.

Eric