Re: RFC: remove sn2, hpsim and ia64 machvecs

From: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Date: Wed Aug 07 2019 - 09:35:42 EST


Hi Christoph!

On 8/7/19 3:30 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> let me know what you think of this series. This drops the pretty much
> dead sn2 and hpsim support, which then allows us to build a single ia64
> kernel image that supports all remaining systems without extra indirections
> in the fast path.

Interesting. Does that mean Debian no longer needs to maintain two different
kernels for ia64, currently named "itanium" and "mckinley"?

Adrian

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