Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 16 Feb 2023 07:04:53 +0200 | From | Mike Rapoport <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] Retire IA64/Itanium support |
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Hi Linus,
On Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 12:08:28PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 11:43 AM Luck, Tony <tony.luck@intel.com> wrote: > > > > Maybe you don't see others pain? I added Al Viro ... perhaps > > he'll replay some of his thoughts from trying to make signals > > and other stuff work correctly on ia64. > > Well, as long as it's ia64-specific, I'll just go "hey, it was Al's > choice to look at that code". > > IOW, I'm more worried about "ia64 makes it a pain to make _generic_ changes". > > IOW, doing something like this: > > git log -p --no-merges --since=1.year arch/ia64/ > > to see what kind of pain ia64 parts of patches have caused, about a > third of them are that "look, somebody cared about ia64 explicitly".
I remember that when I was doing cleanups of mm initialization, ia64 required special care several times.
> That said, it's entirely possible I've missed some particular painpoint.
The largest painpoint IMO is absence of any ability to test ia64 except sending patches to Adrian in a hope he has time to give them a whirl.
> Linus
-- Sincerely yours, Mike.
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