> On Oct 25, 2024, at 00:57, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
> <glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>
> Thus, I suggest we drop cross-support for ia64 from binutils for the time
> being in order to reduce the footprint of the binutils package.
>
This is sad but I think we have to come to terms with the fact that Itanium has
moved from working platform to history books. For the very few of us fans, it
will be called Vintage. For everyone else, oblivion.
It doesn't help that there isn't a proper software Itanium emulator - not one
to the level of QEMU, for example. Or some piece of personal hardware that was
popular, as it is the case for m68k. That might has helped keeping the platform
alive. With just scant access to big iron physical servers, there is just no
critical mass to keep the platform going just on ephemeral volunteer hours.
