lack of equipment and interest is certainly an issue for ia64.  i don't 
know of many (any) running these today.

s.


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Bernard Li wrote:
> Hi Steven (and anybody else who is interested):
> 
> We decided to "drop" IA64 only due to the lack of man-power.  I do not
> think there were any technological issues preventing us from
> supporting it -- we just didn't have the hardware/resources, and thus
> it is not currently listed as being supported in 5.x.
> 
> If somebody has the hardware (i.e. more than one IA64 servers), and
> resources (rebuild all the SRPMs and test), then it is definitely
> do-able.
> 
> I am not sure the current status of SystemImager support on the IA64,
> but if you run into issues, the SystemImager developers should be able
> to help out in that regard.
> 
> So, if anybody is interested in getting IA64 (re)-supported in future
> OSCAR releases, please let us know!
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Bernard
> 
> On 6/11/07, Michael Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
>>Since this discusses unsupported distributions I am moving the thread
>>to oscar-devel.
>>
>>For the record, Bernard Li did most of the check ins I noticed.
>>
>>On 6/8/07, Steven A. DuChene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>>Thanks for the info, Michael
>>>Can you tell from the SVN checkins who was working on it last?
>>>
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>
>>>>From: Michael Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>>Sent: Jun 8, 2007 7:27 AM
>>>>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>>Cc: "Steven A. DuChene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>>Subject: Re: [Oscar-users] ia64 support gone in OSCAR-5.X ?
>>>>
>>>>There appears to be at least limited ia64 support in trunk.  I am not
>>>>sure if it is complete, but most of the core packages appear to be
>>>>available for RHEL 4 on ia64.  You'll need to do a subversion checkout
>>>>as described here
>>>>http://oscar.openclustergroup.org/faq.development.svn-howto
>>>>
>>>>The fact that it is not one of the nightly build tarballs indicates it
>>>>is probably not complete.
>>>>
>>>>On 6/8/07, Greenseid, Joseph M. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>When 5.0 was released, there was no ia64 support -- for my ia64 system I 
>>>>>built a few months ago, I had to use 4.2.1.  I have been keeping an eye to 
>>>>>see if that changed, but I don't think it has yet.
>>>>>
>>>>>--Joe
>>>>>
>>>>>________________________________
>>>>>
>>>>>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Steven A. DuChene
>>>>>Sent: Thu 6/7/2007 3:53 PM
>>>>>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>>>Subject: [Oscar-users] ia64 support gone in OSCAR-5.X ?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>I have looked through the FAQ, and the various pieces of available 
>>>>>documentation as well
>>>>>as the various files available from the OSCAR downloads sites for an 
>>>>>answer to ia64 support.
>>>>>Is there no current OSCAR-5.X bits for installing onto an ia64 cluster?
>>>>>--
>>>>>Steven DuChene
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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