Re: [PATCH v2 1/6] ia64: Remove support

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz]

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 Itanium IA-64 support is obsolete, and implements its own flavor of EFI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.

Adrian

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