On Thu, 2023-05-11 at 14:17 +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > On Thu, 11 May 2023 at 14:14, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > <glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > > > > On Thu, 2023-05-11 at 14:06 +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > > > Itanium IA-64 support is obsolete, and implements its own flavor of EFI > > > boot that deviates from other architectures. Given that IA64 is unused > > > and unmaintained, it makes no sense to pretend that the EFI changes we > > > are making are tested or supported on IA64, so let's just get rid of it. > > > > But I just recently tested GRUB from git on IA64 and it worked without > > any problems. We're using GRUB to boot Debian on IA64. > > > > IA-64 is a dead platform, and a waste of electricity.
I was just making a statement regarding the testability of the code. That's all. > Feel free to keep using it, but please stop demanding that our people > keep wasting their time on it. If you want to support it in Debian, > you can carry it as a downstream patch and shoulder the maintenance > burden. Who is "our people"? Do you think that you are part of the community and I am not? I don't think this kind of hostility is justified. Neither you nor I own this project. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913 _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
