* [gentoo-dev] Itanium (IA64) port: call for help
@ 2022-01-27 18:22 99% Sam James
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From: Sam James @ 2022-01-27 18:22 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-dev, ia64
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Hi all,
TL;DR: We really need help! There aren't many developers in Gentoo
Currently interested in working on Itanium. Come hang around in #gentoo-ia64
on libera.chat (IRC) if you're interested in helping.
As discussed in the recent Gentoo Council meeting [0], concerns were raised
about the status of Itanium (IA64) and I agreed to write to gentoo-dev to
assess the level of interest & put out a call for volunteers.
What we need from volunteers is at least one of the following:
- Package testers to perform "keywording" (verifying a package compiles and ideally
passes tests on IA64)
- An advocate for the arch/port (it's hard to be motivated for
something not working unless we know _someone_ out there is affected
or cares)
- Possibly general work on reporting bugs upstream, triaging failures,
and even trying to fix them where possible (but it's okay to not
be an expert in IA64 internals).
- Folks simply using IA64 on Gentoo to let us know!
- Anything else if you think it'd help the port effort.
But ultimately, if you're using IA64, you can help in some way.
There were rumours of GCC support being deprecated (and subsequent
removal) [2][3] but this does NOT appear to have happened so far [4].
It might be worth a volunteer could investigate setting up
CI for GCC upstream (and possibly glibc if they need it).
Gentoo does have a machine ("guppy") for performing development
work on, but we need people to actually use it.
(This is a good time to note that friends and users of "alternative
hardware" are welcome to join e.g. #gentoo-ia64, #gentoo-alpha,
#gentoo-arm, #gentoo-hppa, #gentoo-sparc, and #gentoo-embedded too!)
[0] https://projects.gentoo.org/council/meeting-logs/20220109-summary.txt
[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Gentoo/comments/s0emlj/trying_to_boot_latest_ia64_release/
[2] https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Intel-IA-64-GCC-Deprecation
[3] https://gcc.gnu.org/legacy-ml/gcc/2019-06/msg00125.html
[4] https://gcc.gnu.org/git/?p=gcc.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=ia64
best,
sam
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