From: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@hpe.com>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Steve Wahl <steve.wahl@hpe.com>,
"Anderson, Russ" <russ.anderson@hpe.com>,
Robin Holt <robinmholt@gmail.com>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>, Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org>,
"Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle)" <ljs@kernel.org>,
Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@arm.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@hpe.com>
Subject: [PATCH 0/2] Remove the sgi-gru and sgi-xp drivers
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2026 09:26:47 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <amywpyZgGWyhzBjZ@hpe.com> (raw)
Due to security concerns, remove the SGI GRU driver, which cannot be used on
anything newer than the long time unsupported UV2 platform. Since working
sgi-xp drivers require the GRU driver, remove sgi-xp as well.
Dimitri Sivanich (2):
misc: sgi-xp: Remove SGI XP drivers
misc: sgi-gru: Remove SGI GRU driver
MAINTAINERS | 11 -
drivers/misc/Kconfig | 34 -
drivers/misc/Makefile | 2 -
drivers/misc/sgi-gru/Makefile | 6 -
drivers/misc/sgi-gru/gru.h | 76 -
drivers/misc/sgi-gru/gru_instructions.h | 726 ----------
drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grufault.c | 903 ------------
drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grufile.c | 540 -------
drivers/misc/sgi-gru/gruhandles.c | 192 ---
drivers/misc/sgi-gru/gruhandles.h | 517 -------
drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grukdump.c | 223 ---
drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grukservices.c | 1157 ---------------
drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grukservices.h | 201 ---
drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grulib.h | 153 --
drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grumain.c | 969 -------------
drivers/misc/sgi-gru/gruprocfs.c | 308 ----
drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grutables.h | 659 ---------
drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grutlbpurge.c | 316 -----
drivers/misc/sgi-xp/Makefile | 13 -
drivers/misc/sgi-xp/xp.h | 341 -----
drivers/misc/sgi-xp/xp_main.c | 261 ----
drivers/misc/sgi-xp/xp_uv.c | 151 --
drivers/misc/sgi-xp/xpc.h | 732 ----------
drivers/misc/sgi-xp/xpc_channel.c | 1011 -------------
drivers/misc/sgi-xp/xpc_main.c | 1309 -----------------
drivers/misc/sgi-xp/xpc_partition.c | 545 -------
drivers/misc/sgi-xp/xpc_uv.c | 1728 -----------------------
drivers/misc/sgi-xp/xpnet.c | 599 --------
28 files changed, 13683 deletions(-)
delete mode 100644 drivers/misc/sgi-gru/Makefile
delete mode 100644 drivers/misc/sgi-gru/gru.h
delete mode 100644 drivers/misc/sgi-gru/gru_instructions.h
delete mode 100644 drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grufault.c
delete mode 100644 drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grufile.c
delete mode 100644 drivers/misc/sgi-gru/gruhandles.c
delete mode 100644 drivers/misc/sgi-gru/gruhandles.h
delete mode 100644 drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grukdump.c
delete mode 100644 drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grukservices.c
delete mode 100644 drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grukservices.h
delete mode 100644 drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grulib.h
delete mode 100644 drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grumain.c
delete mode 100644 drivers/misc/sgi-gru/gruprocfs.c
delete mode 100644 drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grutables.h
delete mode 100644 drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grutlbpurge.c
delete mode 100644 drivers/misc/sgi-xp/Makefile
delete mode 100644 drivers/misc/sgi-xp/xp.h
delete mode 100644 drivers/misc/sgi-xp/xp_main.c
delete mode 100644 drivers/misc/sgi-xp/xp_uv.c
delete mode 100644 drivers/misc/sgi-xp/xpc.h
delete mode 100644 drivers/misc/sgi-xp/xpc_channel.c
delete mode 100644 drivers/misc/sgi-xp/xpc_main.c
delete mode 100644 drivers/misc/sgi-xp/xpc_partition.c
delete mode 100644 drivers/misc/sgi-xp/xpc_uv.c
delete mode 100644 drivers/misc/sgi-xp/xpnet.c
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2.43.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-07-31 14:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-31 14:26 Dimitri Sivanich [this message]
2026-07-31 14:30 ` [PATCH 1/2] misc: sgi-xp: Remove SGI XP drivers Dimitri Sivanich
2026-07-31 14:37 ` [PATCH 2/2] misc: sgi-gru: Remove SGI GRU driver Dimitri Sivanich
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