linux.git/arch/alpha/kernel/setup.c, branch v6.12.80

alpha: remove LCA and APECS based machines

2024-05-03T20:09:59+00:00

APECS is the DECchip 21071x chipset for the EV4 and EV45 generation, while
LCA is the integrated I/O support on the corresponding low-cost alpha
machines of that generation.

All of these CPUs lack the BWX extension for byte and word access, so
drop the chipset support and all associated machines.

Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Acked-by: Matt Turner 
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann

alpha: sable: remove early machine support

2024-05-03T20:09:55+00:00

The sable family (Alphaserver 2000 and 2100) comes in variants for
EV4, EV45, EV5 and EV56. Drop support for the earlier ones that
lack support for the BWX extension but keep the later 'gamma'
variant around since that works with EV56 CPUs.

Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Acked-by: Matt Turner 
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann

alpha: remove DECpc AXP150 (Jensen) support

2024-05-03T20:09:50+00:00

This is one of the hackiest Alpha machines, and the only one without
PCI support. Removing this allows cleaning up code in eise and tty
drivers in addition to the architecture code.

Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Acked-by: Matt Turner 
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann

vgacon: clean up global screen_info instances

2023-10-17T08:17:02+00:00

To prepare for completely separating the VGA console screen_info from
the one used in EFI/sysfb, rename the vgacon instances and make them
local as much as possible.

ia64 and arm both have confurations with vgacon and efi, but the contents
never overlaps because ia64 has no EFI framebuffer, and arm only has
vga console on legacy platforms without EFI. Renaming these is required
before the EFI screen_info can be moved into drivers/firmware.

The ia64 vga console is actually registered in two places from
setup_arch(), but one of them is wrong, so drop the one in pcdp.c and
fix the one in setup.c to use the correct conditional.

x86 has to keep them together, as the boot protocol is used to switch
between VGA text console and framebuffer through the screen_info data.

Acked-by: Javier Martinez Canillas 
Acked-by: Khalid Aziz 
Acked-by: Helge Deller 
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231009211845.3136536-7-arnd@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

vgacon: remove screen_info dependency

2023-10-17T08:17:02+00:00

The vga console driver is fairly self-contained, and only used by
architectures that explicitly initialize the screen_info settings.

Chance every instance that picks the vga console by setting conswitchp
to call a function instead, and pass a reference to the screen_info
there.

Reviewed-by: Javier Martinez Canillas 
Acked-by: Khalid Azzi 
Acked-by: Helge Deller 
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231009211845.3136536-6-arnd@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

vgacon: rework screen_info #ifdef checks

2023-10-17T08:17:02+00:00

On non-x86 architectures, the screen_info variable is generally only
used for the VGA console where supported, and in some cases the EFI
framebuffer or vga16fb.

Now that we have a definite list of which architectures actually use it
for what, use consistent #ifdef checks so the global variable is only
defined when it is actually used on those architectures.

Loongarch and riscv have no support for vgacon or vga16fb, but
they support EFI firmware, so only that needs to be checked, and the
initialization can be removed because that is handled by EFI.
IA64 has both vgacon and EFI, though EFI apparently never uses
a framebuffer here.

Reviewed-by: Javier Martinez Canillas 
Reviewed-by: Thomas Zimmermann 
Reviewed-by: Khalid Aziz 
Acked-by: Helge Deller 
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231009211845.3136536-3-arnd@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge commit b320441c04c9 ("Merge tag 'tty-6.5-rc7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty") into tty-next

2023-08-20T12:29:37+00:00

We need the serial-core fixes in here as well.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

alpha: remove __init annotation from exported page_is_ram()

2023-08-09T18:06:14+00:00

EXPORT_SYMBOL and __init is a bad combination because the .init.text
section is freed up after the initialization.

Commit c5a130325f13 ("ACPI/APEI: Add parameter check before error
injection") exported page_is_ram(), hence the __init annotation should
be removed.

This fixes the modpost warning in ARCH=alpha builds:

  WARNING: modpost: vmlinux: page_is_ram: EXPORT_SYMBOL used for init symbol. Remove __init or EXPORT_SYMBOL.

Fixes: c5a130325f13 ("ACPI/APEI: Add parameter check before error injection")
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada 
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap

tty: sysrq: switch sysrq handlers from int to u8

2023-07-25T17:21:03+00:00

The passed parameter to sysrq handlers is a key (a character). So change
the type from 'int' to 'u8'. Let it specifically be 'u8' for two
reasons:
* unsigned: unsigned values come from the upper layers (devices) and the
  tty layer assumes unsigned on most places, and
* 8-bit: as that what's supposed to be one day in all the layers built
  on the top of tty. (Currently, we use mostly 'unsigned char' and
  somewhere still only 'char'. (But that also translates to the former
  thanks to -funsigned-char.))

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby (SUSE) 
Cc: Richard Henderson 
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky 
Cc: Matt Turner 
Cc: Huacai Chen 
Cc: WANG Xuerui 
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer 
Cc: Michael Ellerman 
Cc: Nicholas Piggin 
Cc: Christophe Leroy 
Cc: "David S. Miller" 
Cc: Maarten Lankhorst 
Cc: Maxime Ripard 
Cc: Thomas Zimmermann 
Cc: David Airlie 
Cc: Daniel Vetter 
Cc: Jason Wessel 
Cc: Daniel Thompson 
Cc: Douglas Anderson 
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" 
Cc: Len Brown 
Cc: Pavel Machek 
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Neeraj Upadhyay 
Cc: Joel Fernandes 
Cc: Josh Triplett 
Cc: Boqun Feng 
Cc: Steven Rostedt 
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers 
Cc: Lai Jiangshan 
Cc: Zqiang 
Acked-by: Thomas Zimmermann  # DRM
Acked-by: WANG Xuerui  # loongarch
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Acked-by: Daniel Thompson 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230712081811.29004-3-jirislaby@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

init: remove pointless Root_* values

2023-06-05T16:55:20+00:00

Remove all unused defines, and just use the expanded versions for
the SCSI disk majors.

I've decided to keep Root_RAM0 even if it could be expanded as there
is a lot of special casing for it in the init code.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230531125535.676098-6-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe