Hi! On 9/23/21 22:48, Connor McLaughlan wrote: > as for ia64 the news tell there is no kernel maintainer anymore and the > architecture is marked as orphaned, so removal might be coming soon.
Architectures have been in the kernel without a maintainer before, so it's not really news. arch/sh was without a maintainer for some time but it eventually got new maintainers again. > But you would know first of course, as your name is mentioned in the same > news about it :) > > https://www.heise.de/news/Linux-5-11-Support-fuer-Intel-SGX-neue-Treiber-und-kleinere-Verbesserungen-5051869.html?seite=3 Funny, I didn't actually know that :D. Thanks for digging this up. > I was just thinking about trying to get one of those fancy ia64 > workstations for added fun... We have still a number of ia64 machines at SUSE that are being let go and which I am going to pick up. There are two SGI Prism, for example, very cool machines. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - [email protected] `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - [email protected] `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
