Hello linux-ia64, I noticed following the news of the proposal to remove ia64 from the kernel that the architecture has no maintainer. I'd be happy to volunteer to maintain the architecture, should the decision of removal be reversed. I'm not the ideal candidate, since I never contributed anything to the code, but I have an Itanium machine running Linux to test on, some spare time, and I've contributed a few patches as a part of my job of kernel developer at Red Hat. I'm also a contributor to T2 SDE, a source-based community Linux distribution supporting various architectures including Alpha, HP PA-RISC, and Itanium. I have interest in the architecture, having done some experiments on it with code performance. Tomas Glozar PS: Original email got sent in multipart format by mistake, re-sending as plain text, sorry about that.
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