Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] asm-generic updates for v6.7 | From | John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <> | Date | Thu, 02 Nov 2023 18:36:39 +0100 |
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Hi Linus!
On Thu, 2023-11-02 at 07:28 -1000, Linus Torvalds wrote: > That said, I'd be willing to resurrect itanium support, even though I > personally despise the architecture with a passion for being > fundamentally based on faulty design premises, and an implementation > based on politics rather than good technical design.
This made my day. :-)
> But only if it turns out to actually have some long-term active > interest (ie I'd compare it to the situation with m68k etc - clearly > dead architectures that we still support despite them being not > relevant - because some people care and they don't cause pain).
Fully agreed.
> So I'd be willing to come back to the "can we resurrect it" > discussion, but not immediately - more along the lines of a "look, > we've been maintaining it out of tree for a year, the other > infrastructure is still alive, there is no impact on the rest of the > kernel, can we please try again"?
I think this is a very reasonable approach. If the keeping the architecture alive is sustainable, it should be possible to do that out of tree for a given period of time.
Thanks, Adrian
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