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From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date:   Wed, 15 Feb 2023 11:30:50 -0800
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] Retire IA64/Itanium support
To:     John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>
Cc:     Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>,
        Jessica Clarke <jrtc27@jrtc27.com>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
        Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>,
        Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
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On Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 2:17 AM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
<glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
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> It's not that I don't care. I just haven't been able to bisect the bug .yet

I'm not a fan of ia64 as an architecture, but it's a bit sad to remove
it entirely. It's not like it's been a huge maintenance burden in
general.

That said, if it doesn't work, and nobody has the time and/or
inclination to figure out why, I don't really see any alternative.

             Linus