Ah! http://www.linux.com/news/enterprise/biz-enterprise/266916-red-hat-pulls-plug-on-itanium-with-rhel-6
That leaves debian, which still supports it officially, unofficial support on Ubuntu and support for ia32 on SUSE. But that leads me to question the future of ia64 itself. I don't personally believe HP will keep it alive for long. Bill. On Jan 31, 6:28 pm, Bill Hart <goodwillh...@googlemail.com> wrote: > 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
