Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] Retire IA64/Itanium support

From: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Date: Wed Feb 15 2023 - 05:17:23 EST


Hello Ard!

On Wed, 2023-02-15 at 11:00 +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> The IA64 port of Linux has no maintainer, and according to a report from
> its only remaining user [0], it has been broken for a month and nobody
> cares.

It's not that I don't care. I just haven't been able to bisect the bug .yet

> Given that keeping a complex but unused architecture alive uses up
> valuable developer bandwidth, let's just get rid of it.
>
> This supersedes my patch proposing to mark it as 'dead', which received
> no replies from anyone that wants to keep it alive. [1]

I'm actually fine with marking it as dead. I forgot to ack.

Adrian

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