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From:   Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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Subject: Re: Removing architectures without upstream gcc support
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On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 1:09 PM, Andy Shevchenko
<andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 12:32 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
>
> ia64 as far as I *heard* from some news will be in support (I mean by
> vendors) for few more years. Not a fun, just business.

My impression was that the business side is only on enterprise distros
(SLES11 is still supported, RHEL5 is on 'extended support' only), but not
with mainline kernels. Anyway, it doesn't matter as nobody is suggestion
to remove it any time soon.

        Arnd