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

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Wed Feb 15 2023 - 14:31:15 EST


On Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 2:17 AM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
<glaubitz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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