Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] Retire IA64/Itanium support | From | John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <> | Date | Wed, 15 Feb 2023 11:17:11 +0100 |
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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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