Gentoo Linux drops IA-64 (Itanium) support

Date:
Fri, 16 Aug 2024 16:46:26 +0000

Description:
The Gentoo Linux project has announced that it is dropping support for Itanium: Following the removal of IA-64 (Itanium) support in the Linux kernel and glibc ,
and subsequent discussions on our mailing list , as well as
a vote by the Gentoo Council , Gentoo will discontinue all ia64
profiles and keywords. The primary reason for this decision is the
inability of the Gentoo IA-64 team to support this architecture
without kernel support, glibc support, and a functional development
box (or even a well-established emulator). In addition, there have
been only very few users interested in this type of hardware.

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Link to news story:
https://lwn.net/Articles/986030/


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