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

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz]

On Thu, 2023-05-11 at 14:17 +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> 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 Itanium IA-64 support is obsolete, and implements its own flavor of EFI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.

I was just making a statement regarding the testability of the code. That's all.

> 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.

Who is "our people"? Do you think that you are part of the community and
I am not? I don't think this kind of hostility is justified. Neither you
nor I own this project.

Adrian

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