linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] Retire IA64/Itanium support

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Date:   Wed, 15 Feb 2023 11:30:50 -0800
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@...sik.fu-berlin.de>
Cc:     Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
        Jessica Clarke <jrtc27@...c27.com>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>,
        Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>, linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] Retire IA64/Itanium support

On Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 2:17 AM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
<glaubitz@...sik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>
> It's not that I don't care. I just haven't been able to bisect the bug .yet

I'm not a fan of ia64 as an architecture, but it's a bit sad to remove
it entirely. It's not like it's been a huge maintenance burden in
general.

That said, if it doesn't work, and nobody has the time and/or
inclination to figure out why, I don't really see any alternative.

             Linus