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From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Chandramouli Narayanan <mouli@linux.intel.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ak@suse.de, akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.21 1/3] x86_64: EFI64 support
Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2007 12:44:13 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1abvj1pmq.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070501190110.770881000@em64tdvp.jf.intel.com> (Chandramouli Narayanan's message of "Tue, 01 May 2007 11:59:46 -0700")

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

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-06-01 18:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-01 18:59 [PATCH 2.6.21 0/3] " Chandramouli Narayanan
2007-05-01 18:59 ` [PATCH 2.6.21 1/3] " Chandramouli Narayanan
2007-05-03  2:56   ` Randy Dunlap
2007-05-03 19:20     ` chandramouli narayanan
2007-05-03 20:15       ` Randy Dunlap
2007-06-01 16:47       ` Yinghai Lu
2007-05-04 13:01   ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-25 22:46     ` chandramouli narayanan
2007-06-01 18:39   ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-06-01 18:44   ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2007-05-01 18:59 ` [PATCH 2.6.21 2/3] " Chandramouli Narayanan
2007-05-02 20:55   ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-02 22:43     ` chandramouli narayanan
2007-06-01 18:50   ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-05-01 18:59 ` [PATCH 2.6.21 3/3] " Chandramouli Narayanan
2007-06-01 18:52   ` Eric W. Biederman

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