> I think the last time this came up, it was said that those people still > running Linux on Itanium were running old distro kernels, not upstream. > > So yeah, we could probably do whatever and nobody would ever notice, > except maybe Al, who is rumoured to still have an ia64 :-)
I haven't heard of anyone taking upstream kernels and actually using them for production work in a long time. It's mostly just a few folks keeping ia64 alive "just because" these days. I doubt any of them have an SGI Altix to test on (so realistically Altix was probably broken upstream many releases ago). -Tony
