Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] Retire IA64/Itanium support
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- To: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@xxxxxxxxxx>, linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] Retire IA64/Itanium support
- From: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2023 11:17:11 +0100
- Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>, Tony Luck <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx>, Jessica Clarke <jrtc27@xxxxxxxxxx>, Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Marc Zyngier <maz@xxxxxxxxxx>, Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, linux-ia64@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- In-reply-to: <20230215100008.2565237-1-ardb@kernel.org>
- References: <20230215100008.2565237-1-ardb@kernel.org>
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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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