2012/5/18 Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx>:
> Émeric Maschino wrote:
>> 2012/5/17 Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
>>> Right, but this is not just for Debian.
>>
>> Uh? I thought that Debian was the latest Linux distribution to support IA-64.
>
> Gentoo and Linux From Scratch include support for Itanium. It is also
> not too unusual to upgrade some components (especially the kernel) on
> an older system when one wants newer features.
>
> My original message was proposing to include this patch in the 3.0.y
> and 3.2.y kernels available from kernel.org. Ben made that change for
> 3.2.y so it will be included in 3.2.18 (unless some problem comes up
> before then). Sorry for the lack of context.
I didn't understand you were talking about upstream. Thank you for the
clarification. And for pointing out that Gentoo is still alive ;-)
Emeric
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