Debian dev to the rescue after proposal to remove Itanium from Linux kernel
Linux kernel developers have debated removing support for Intel and HP's now officially defunct Itanium/IA64 platform from the project, with the outcome appearing to be a proposal to keep it alive.by Arm principal software developer Ard Biesheuvel pointed out that"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.
But he admitted that"if it doesn't work, and nobody has the time and/or inclination to figure out why, I don't really see any alternative" to ending support. He later opined that keeping IA64 alive isn't much more onerous than the effort to keep another long-dead architecture – DEC's Alpha – as an option for kernel users.
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