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From: Jeremy Olexa <darkside@g.o>
To: gentoo-alt@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alt] [PREFIX] discontinued support for (~)mips-linux
Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 12:22:14
Message-Id: 482C2AE8.1030606@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-alt] [PREFIX] discontinued support for (~)mips-linux by Fabian Groffen
1 Fabian Groffen wrote:
2 > On 15-05-2008 12:05:23 +0200, Michael Haubenwallner wrote:
3 >> For the ia64-linux I can see some future, as HP pushes the Itanium
4 >> platform in general, running either HP-UX, Linux or Windows (and even
5 >> OpenVMS).
6 >>
7 >> Although we do not run Linux on ia64 yet, because it is 64bit only
8 >> (unlike hpux, linux does not support 32bit emulation on ia64 AFAICT), we
9 >> eventually could switch one of our compile-farm nodes from ia64-hpux to
10 >> ia64-linux - maybe the cross-compilers would run faster then...
11 >>
12 >> But it's ok with me to drop ia64-linux ATM, and to re-add it when there
13 >> is time to do so.
14 >
15 > It will be trivial to do so if that happens. I guess we'll eliminate
16 > mips-linux and ia64-linux in one go for now then.
17
18 I have ia64-linux but not much use for it ATM. We are moving away from
19 ia64-linux actually. So, tecnically, I *could* support it is any user
20 wanted it but since no one has spoken yet..drop++.
21
22 -Jeremy
23
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