Hi Linus! On Thu, 2023-11-02 at 07:28 -1000, Linus Torvalds wrote: > That said, I'd be willing to resurrect itanium support, even though I > personally despise the architecture with a passion for being > fundamentally based on faulty design premises, and an implementation > based on politics rather than good technical design. This made my day. :-) > But only if it turns out to actually have some long-term active > interest (ie I'd compare it to the situation with m68k etc - clearly > dead architectures that we still support despite them being not > relevant - because some people care and they don't cause pain). Fully agreed. > So I'd be willing to come back to the "can we resurrect it" > discussion, but not immediately - more along the lines of a "look, > we've been maintaining it out of tree for a year, the other > infrastructure is still alive, there is no impact on the rest of the > kernel, can we please try again"? I think this is a very reasonable approach. If the keeping the architecture alive is sustainable, it should be possible to do that out of tree for a given period of time. Thanks, Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
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