On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 06:43:41PM +0000, Luck, Tony wrote: > > I think the last time this came up, it was said that those people still > > running Linux on Itanium were running old distro kernels, not upstream. > > > > So yeah, we could probably do whatever and nobody would ever notice, > > except maybe Al, who is rumoured to still have an ia64 :-) > > I haven't heard of anyone taking upstream kernels and actually using them > for production work in a long time. It's mostly just a few folks keeping ia64 > alive "just because" these days. I doubt any of them have an SGI Altix > to test on (so realistically Altix was probably broken upstream many releases > ago). That would require a well-healed computer collector, wouldn't it? Just to run the thing. ;-) Thanx, Paul
