From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Keir Fraser Subject: Re: removal of ia64 port Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 10:58:25 +0000 Message-ID: References: <4F69A3340200007800079D1B@nat28.tlf.novell.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4F69A3340200007800079D1B@nat28.tlf.novell.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Jan Beulich , KUWAMURA Shin'ya , xen-devel Cc: xen-ia64-devel List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On 21/03/2012 08:45, "Jan Beulich" wrote: > Given that the ia64 port hasn't really been maintained for the last couple > of years (I am apparently the only one to try to keep it building at least, > but I suspect that it has been non-functional for quite a while), I'd like to > propose to remove the port. After quite some time of trying to get an > opinion from Intel on this, I was now notified of their agreement to this > move. > > From my pov, the only thing to discuss here is whether this should > happen right away, or after 4.2 went out (then with a formal removal > proposal in that release - the port's state isn't being reflected correctly > anyway in ./MAINTAINERS afaict). > > Thoughts? I don't think it would be unreasonable to remove it ahead of 4.2. It's not been working for a long time now. -- Keir > Thanks, Jan > > > _______________________________________________ > Xen-devel mailing list > Xen-devel@lists.xen.org > http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel