Re: [GIT PULL] asm-generic updates for v6.7

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz]

Hi Linus!

On Thu, 2023-11-02 at 07:28 -1000, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> That said, I'd be willing to resurrect itanium support, even though I
> personally despise the architecture with a passion for being
> fundamentally based on faulty design premises, and an implementation
> based on politics rather than good technical design.

This made my day. :-)

> But only if it turns out to actually have some long-term active
> interest (ie I'd compare it to the situation with m68k etc - clearly
> dead architectures that we still support despite them being not
> relevant - because some people care and they don't cause pain).

Fully agreed.

> So I'd be willing to come back to the "can we resurrect it"
> discussion, but not immediately - more along the lines of a "look,
> we've been maintaining it out of tree for a year, the other
> infrastructure is still alive, there is no impact on the rest of the
> kernel, can we please try again"?

I think this is a very reasonable approach. If the keeping the architecture
alive is sustainable, it should be possible to do that out of tree for a
given period of time.

Thanks,
Adrian

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