On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 01:57:08AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 09:47:01AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > sh is trivial, arm seems doable, with a bit of luck we can do 'rm -rf > > arch/ia64' leaving us with s390. > > Is removing ia64 a serious plan? I 'joked' about it a while ago on IRC, and aegl reacted that it might not be entirely unreasonable. > It is the cause for a fair share of > oddities in dma lang, and I did not have much luck getting maintainer > replies lately, but I didn't know of a plan to get rid of it. > > What is the state of people still using ia64 mainline kernels vs just > old distros in the still existing machines? Both arjan and aegl said that the vast majority of people still running ia64 machines run old distros.
