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From: Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o>
To: gentoo-alt@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alt] [PREFIX] discontinued support for (~)mips-linux
Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 10:22:56
Message-Id: 20080515102253.GK15559@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-alt] [PREFIX] discontinued support for (~)mips-linux by Michael Haubenwallner
1 On 15-05-2008 12:05:23 +0200, Michael Haubenwallner wrote:
2 > For the ia64-linux I can see some future, as HP pushes the Itanium
3 > platform in general, running either HP-UX, Linux or Windows (and even
4 > OpenVMS).
5 >
6 > Although we do not run Linux on ia64 yet, because it is 64bit only
7 > (unlike hpux, linux does not support 32bit emulation on ia64 AFAICT), we
8 > eventually could switch one of our compile-farm nodes from ia64-hpux to
9 > ia64-linux - maybe the cross-compilers would run faster then...
10 >
11 > But it's ok with me to drop ia64-linux ATM, and to re-add it when there
12 > is time to do so.
13
14 It will be trivial to do so if that happens. I guess we'll eliminate
15 mips-linux and ia64-linux in one go for now then.
16
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19 Fabian Groffen
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Re: [gentoo-alt] [PREFIX] discontinued support for (~)mips-linux Jeremy Olexa <darkside@g.o>