Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763352AbXFASpZ (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Jun 2007 14:45:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1762086AbXFASpL (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Jun 2007 14:45:11 -0400 Received: from ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com ([166.70.28.69]:35927 "EHLO ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1761617AbXFASpI (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Jun 2007 14:45:08 -0400 From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) To: Chandramouli Narayanan 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 References: <20070501185945.237601000@em64tdvp.jf.intel.com> <20070501190110.770881000@em64tdvp.jf.intel.com> Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2007 12:44:13 -0600 In-Reply-To: <20070501190110.770881000@em64tdvp.jf.intel.com> (Chandramouli Narayanan's message of "Tue, 01 May 2007 11:59:46 -0700") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1043 Lines: 30 Chandramouli Narayanan 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/