Re: [PATCH v2 1/6] ia64: Remove support

2023-05-13 Thread Oskari Pirhonen
On Fri, May 12, 2023 at 12:41:47 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hello Ard! > > On Thu, 2023-05-11 at 16:29 +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > > > > Feel free to keep using it, but please stop demanding that our people > > > > keep wasting their time on it. If you want to support it in Debia

Re: [PATCH v2 1/6] ia64: Remove support

2023-05-12 Thread matoro via Grub-devel
On 2023-05-12 05:49, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: On Fri, 12 May 2023 at 00:41, matoro wrote: On 2023-05-11 18:09, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > On Thu, 11 May 2023 at 20:59, matoro > wrote: >> >> On 2023-05-11 10:29, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: >> > On Thu, 11 May 2023 at 15:34, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz >> >

Re: [PATCH v2 1/6] ia64: Remove support

2023-05-12 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
Hi, > - we decide that GRUB 2.xx (whichever was the most recent release at > the time of the decision) is good enough to boot Linux on ia64 for the > remaining life time of the architecture, and remove it from the GRUB > tree. That looks like the most reasonable option to me. Note that ia64 fi

Re: [PATCH v2 1/6] ia64: Remove support

2023-05-12 Thread Ard Biesheuvel
On Fri, 12 May 2023 at 12:42, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > Hello Ard! > > On Thu, 2023-05-11 at 16:29 +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > > > > Feel free to keep using it, but please stop demanding that our people > > > > keep wasting their time on it. If you want to support it in Debian, > > >

Re: [PATCH v2 1/6] ia64: Remove support

2023-05-12 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello Ard! On Thu, 2023-05-11 at 16:29 +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > > > Feel free to keep using it, but please stop demanding that our people > > > keep wasting their time on it. If you want to support it in Debian, > > > you can carry it as a downstream patch and shoulder the maintenance > > >

Re: [PATCH v2 1/6] ia64: Remove support

2023-05-12 Thread Ard Biesheuvel
On Fri, 12 May 2023 at 00:41, matoro wrote: > > On 2023-05-11 18:09, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > > On Thu, 11 May 2023 at 20:59, matoro > > wrote: > >> > >> On 2023-05-11 10:29, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > >> > On Thu, 11 May 2023 at 15:34, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > >> > wrote: > >> >> > >> >> On Thu,

Re: [PATCH v2 1/6] ia64: Remove support

2023-05-11 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, May 12, 2023 at 12:09:14AM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > Thanks, this could be helpful if we manage to find people that have > the bandwidth to keep working on this. Would you be willing to spend > time and development effort yourself on building and installing GRUB > from the upstream rep

Re: [PATCH v2 1/6] ia64: Remove support

2023-05-11 Thread matoro via Grub-devel
On 2023-05-11 18:09, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: On Thu, 11 May 2023 at 20:59, matoro wrote: On 2023-05-11 10:29, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > On Thu, 11 May 2023 at 15:34, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > wrote: >> >> On Thu, 2023-05-11 at 14:17 +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: >> > On Thu, 11 May 2023 at 14:14

Re: [PATCH v2 1/6] ia64: Remove support

2023-05-11 Thread Ard Biesheuvel
On Thu, 11 May 2023 at 20:59, matoro wrote: > > On 2023-05-11 10:29, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > > On Thu, 11 May 2023 at 15:34, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > > wrote: > >> > >> On Thu, 2023-05-11 at 14:17 +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > >> > On Thu, 11 May 2023 at 14:14, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > >>

Re: [PATCH v2 1/6] ia64: Remove support

2023-05-11 Thread matoro via Grub-devel
On 2023-05-11 10:29, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: On Thu, 11 May 2023 at 15:34, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On Thu, 2023-05-11 at 14:17 +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > On Thu, 11 May 2023 at 14:14, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > wrote: > > > > On Thu, 2023-05-11 at 14:06 +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote

Re: [PATCH v2 1/6] ia64: Remove support

2023-05-11 Thread Ard Biesheuvel
On Thu, 11 May 2023 at 15:34, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > On Thu, 2023-05-11 at 14:17 +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > > On Thu, 11 May 2023 at 14:14, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > > wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, 2023-05-11 at 14:06 +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > > > > Itanium IA-64 support is

Re: [PATCH v2 1/6] ia64: Remove support

2023-05-11 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On Thu, 2023-05-11 at 14:17 +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > On Thu, 11 May 2023 at 14:14, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > wrote: > > > > On Thu, 2023-05-11 at 14:06 +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > > > Itanium IA-64 support is obsolete, and implements its own flavor of EFI > > > boot that deviates from

Re: [PATCH v2 1/6] ia64: Remove support

2023-05-11 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 02:17:57PM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: >On Thu, 11 May 2023 at 14:14, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > wrote: >> >> On Thu, 2023-05-11 at 14:06 +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: >> > Itanium IA-64 support is obsolete, and implements its own flavor of EFI >> > boot that deviates from

Re: [PATCH v2 1/6] ia64: Remove support

2023-05-11 Thread Ard Biesheuvel
On Thu, 11 May 2023 at 14:14, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > On Thu, 2023-05-11 at 14:06 +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > > Itanium IA-64 support is obsolete, and implements its own flavor of EFI > > boot that deviates from other architectures. Given that IA64 is unused > > and unmaintained, i

Re: [PATCH v2 1/6] ia64: Remove support

2023-05-11 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On Thu, 2023-05-11 at 14:06 +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > Itanium IA-64 support is obsolete, and implements its own flavor of EFI > boot that deviates from other architectures. Given that IA64 is unused > and unmaintained, it makes no sense to pretend that the EFI changes we > are making are teste