Re: [crosspost] dropping support for ia64

LLVM dropped support for ia64 in 3.0.

On Sat, May 20, 2023, 12:28 John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello!
>
> On Sat, 2023-05-20 at 18:48 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> > * matoro:
> >
> > > There is no user-mode emulation for ia64 in QEMU either.  The only
> > > "ongoing" emulation work is Sergei's fork of the old "ski" emulator,
> but
> > > this is far from QEMU quality or even usable yet:
> > > https://github.com/trofi/ski
> >
> > Yeah, I must have misremembered.  Awkward.
> >
> > So it's a really exclusive club, which makes continued maintenance
> > efforts even more doubtful.
>
> I have been thinking about this discussion for a while now and my
> suggestion
> would be to drop ia64 support from the kernel, GRUB and gcc/binutils/glibc
> in
> this order:
>
> - Kernel: After the next LTS release
> - GRUB: After the 2.12 release
> - gcc/binutils/glibc: After support was dropped from the kernel
>
> This way anyone still using ia64 will be able to use it with a supported
> codebase
> for an extended time and upstream projects have target releases for which
> they
> can plan the removal.
>
> Other projects such as LLVM, OpenJDK and Ruby already support native code
> generation
> support for ia64 although OpenJDK still works using the Zero port.
>
> Adrian
>
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