Last resend before removal of the ia64 support. Philippe Gerum wrote: > It has been 2.5 years since we saw an update to the Xenomai/ia64 port, and > there > is still no sign of life coming from ia64 users (do we actually have any > Xenomai/ia64 users? maybe one, a single one?). To sum up the situation: > > - our ia64 port stalled in 2.6.16. > - we had zero feedback from anyone regarding the Xenomai/ia64 port since it > was > introduced in 2005 (no, I won't buy the "there was no bug to report" > explanation > for this; it has been a while since Santa Claus told me he was a fake). > - there is no incentive to rejuvenate the ia64 port on my side, given that I > would definitely use PREEMPT_RT to gain real-time guarantees instead of a > co-kernel on this particular architecture. > - We did not hear of anyone having such incentive yet. > > Letting an architecture port bit rot in Xenomai is not an option, and > maintaining a useless port makes no sense. 2.5 brings in a number of new > features, and it is crucial that all of the Xenomai ports support them > properly. > > If you think I'm badly wrong, utterly misinformed, or just nuts (whichever > comes > first), you may want to speak up now. 2.5-rc1 is due for the first week of > February, and I plan to remove the ia64 support before our first release > candidate is out, unless somebody convinces me that I should not do that. >
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