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

[Ard Biesheuvel]

On Thu, 11 May 2023 at 14:14, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
<glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>
> 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 Itanium IA-64 support is obsolete, and implements its own flavor of EFI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.
>

IA-64 is a dead platform, and a waste of electricity.

Feel free to keep using it, but please stop demanding that our people
keep wasting their time on it. If you want to support it in Debian,
you can carry it as a downstream patch and shoulder the maintenance
burden.