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

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Date:   Wed, 15 Feb 2023 11:17:11 +0100
From:   John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@...sik.fu-berlin.de>
To:     Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     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>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] Retire IA64/Itanium support

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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