On 2021-01-13 8:42 a.m., Helge Deller wrote: >>> ia64 is a dead host architecture and doesn't exist in any OS distro that >>> we target anymore, so I don't think we need to consider it. > I have no opinion about ia64. > >>> Likewise parisc/hppa doesn't seem exist in Debian since Squeeze, so I >>> think we can rule that out too. > Can we please keep parisc/hppa. > It's not an official platform any longer, but quite active in the > "unstable" debian-ports repository: > https://buildd.debian.org/status/architecture.php?a=hppa&suite=sid > >>> Only sh4 still seems to be supported in Debian. I expect the primary >>> need there is for sh4 guest support rather than sh4 host support. > Same as for hppa/parisc, sh4 is in debian-ports too. The status of the platforms in debian-ports is here: https://www.ports.debian.org/archive https://buildd.debian.org/status/architecture.php?a=hppa&suite=sid
There is some effort to maintain all the platforms in debian-ports. The hppa platform is also still in gentoo, and one or two bsd distros. Regards, Dave -- John David Anglin dave.ang...@bell.net