Re: Willing to test IA64 builds of Debian and kernel with other distributions if needed

Hello,
Someone wanted to be maintainer for the IA64 port of Linux kernel.
Apologies for not using send all for last email.
 
Thank you,
With Kind Regards,
Dimitri S.



------- Original Message -------
On Monday, September 18th, 2023 at 3:38 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <[email protected]> wrote:


> Hi Dimitri!
> 
> On Mon, 2023-09-18 at 19:21 +0000, thetas.college.work wrote:
> 
> > I read about the plan to drop IA64 support and it saddens me
> > since I use my rx2620 as a daily driver.
> > I would be willing to test IA64 Debian builds and kernel with
> > other distributions (if needed) on my Integrity rx2620. I am a
> > master's student so I might take some time for me to test.
> 
> 
> Your help is appreciated, but I'm afraid that testing alone is not
> enough.
> 
> ia64 support is unmaintained in nearly every relevant upstream project,
> so unless someone is going to step up and become a maintainer for the
> ia64 ports of the kernel, gcc, binutils and glibc and so on there is not
> much we can in the long term.
> 
> Adrian
> 
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