Hey there,

I saw the deprecation of ia64*-*-* scrolling by [1].

Which surprised me, as (minor bugs aside) gcc ia64*-*-linux just works for us 
and
we still actively support it as part of our T2 System Development Environment 
[2].

For ia64 we are currently a team of three and also keep maintaining 
linux-kernel and
glibc git trees with ia64 restored and hope to bring back ia64 to linux 
upstream the
coming months as promised. [3]

Despite popular believe ia64 actually just works for all those projects and we 
already
fixed the few minor bugs we could find or reproduce.

Last week I also already patched and tested enabling LRA for ia64 in gcc [4] 
and could
-without any regression- compile a full ia64 T2/Linux release ISO that boots 
and runs
including an X desktop and Gtk applications. That was of course even with the 
latest
linux kernel and glibc versions with ia64 support restored respectively.

Given there are currently no other volunteers, I therefore with this email step 
up and
offer to become ia64 maintainer for GCC to keep the code compiling, tested and
un-deprecated for the next years and releases to come.

Thank you so much,
        René Rebe

[1] 
https://inbox.sourceware.org/gcc-bugs/bug-90785-4-x7kyh6s...@http.gcc.gnu.org%2Fbugzilla%2F/T/
[2] https://t2sde.org/#news-2023-12-05
[3] 
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-ia64/CAHk-=whflz67ffzt1jurycycyz6el_xjqf8wucdzwur5h65...@mail.gmail.com/
[4] https://svn.exactcode.de/t2/trunk/package/develop/gcc/ia64-lra-impl.patch

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