Re: ia64 maintainership (resend)
Frank Scheiner <[email protected]> Sun, 24 Sep 2023 19:31:35 +0200
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.debian.ports.ia64,gmane.linux.ports.ia64,gmane.linux.kernel.cross-arch |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Dear Tomas, On 24.09.23 19:20, Tomáš Glozar wrote: > Hello linux-ia64, > > I noticed following the news of the proposal to remove ia64 from the > kernel that the architecture has no maintainer. I'd be happy to > volunteer to maintain the architecture, should the decision of removal > be reversed. > > I'm not the ideal candidate, since I never contributed anything to the > code, but I have an Itanium machine running Linux to test on, some > spare time, and I've contributed a few patches as a part of my job of > kernel developer at Red Hat. > > I'm also a contributor to T2 SDE, a source-based community Linux > distribution supporting various architectures including Alpha, HP > PA-RISC, and Itanium. I have interest in the architecture, having done > some experiments on it with code performance. > > Tomas Glozar > > PS: Original email got sent in multipart format by mistake, re-sending > as plain text, sorry about that. Great! I'd be happy to support you with my kernel testing. Also CCing this to Debian's and Gentoo's ia64 lists. Cheers, Frank