Gentoo Linux Drops IA-64 (Itanium) Support – Gentoo Linux
Gentoo Linux will discontinue support for the IA-64 architecture due to lack of kernel and glibc support, minimal user interest, and will remove all related profiles by September 2024.
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Gentoo Linux has announced the discontinuation of support for the IA-64 (Itanium) architecture. This decision follows the removal of IA-64 support in the Linux kernel and glibc, as well as discussions and a vote by the Gentoo Council. The Gentoo IA-64 team cited the lack of kernel and glibc support, along with the absence of a functional development environment or emulator, as primary reasons for this decision. Additionally, there has been minimal user interest in IA-64 hardware. As a result, all IA-64 profiles and keywords will be removed in September 2024, and related Gentoo bugs will be closed.
- Gentoo Linux is discontinuing IA-64 (Itanium) support due to lack of kernel and glibc support.
- The decision was made after discussions and a vote by the Gentoo Council.
- Minimal user interest in IA-64 hardware contributed to the decision.
- All IA-64 profiles and keywords will be removed by September 2024.
- Related Gentoo bugs will also be closed at that time.
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5 commentsLooks like they had no choice.
Seems even NetBSD does not 100% support IA64:
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