OK, I did some reading and I now see the point of the question. At this point I don't see any problem with Linux on Itanium 2. For example the gcc build farm contains an Itanium 2 (though no longer an Itanium), and gcc itself support Itanium 2, as does the assembler (obviously).
Are there any articles which you could point me to which might change my mind about Linux on Itanium? Certainly if Linux didn't have a future on Itanium, then that would indeed be relevant. Bill. On Jan 31, 3:28 pm, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 6:27 AM, Bill Hart <goodwillh...@googlemail.com> > wrote: > > I don't see any point listing HP-UX. That platform died in 2004. I saw > > its grave. > > > Here is one of the many obituaries: > > >http://www.chillingeffects.org/responses/notice.cgi?NoticeID=1460 > > > I see you suggested Sage switch to GMP for an HP-UX port. Well, not > > only will MPIR not be supporting HP-UX, but some time between now and > > March this year, we will be removing the assembly support for the PA- > > RISC processors. Recently we found an actual PA-RISC machine (though > > not running HP-UX) and the assembly code was totally broken. No one > > has stepped forward to work on fixing it. No one we now has the > > expertise. > > > We'll also be removing the assembly support for a plethora of other > > platforms that have long died, even their manufacturers disowning > > them. The rule will be: if people aren't using it, and we don't have > > access to one and it is more than a certain number of years old, > > support will be discontinued. Supporting dead architectures is a > > massive waste of developer effort. > > > We urgently need ports to Solaris 64 bit and to Windows Vista and and > > Windows 7, 32 and 64 bit. We should be focusing all our efforts on > > these important ports, instead of dead platforms/architectures like > > AIX, HP-UX and TRU64. > > > Bill. > > In your mind, is Linux on Itanium2 dead or alive? > > William -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
