Debian dev to the rescue after proposal to remove Itanium from Linux kernel
Linux kernel developers have debated removing support for Intel and HP's now officially defunct Itanium/IA64 platform from the project, with the outcome appearing to be a proposal to keep it alive.
A Wednesday post by Arm principal software developer Ard Biesheuvel pointed out that "The IA64 port of Linux has no maintainer, and according to a report from its only remaining user [0], it has been broken for a month and nobody cares."
Biesheuvel suggested that set of circumstances makes persisting with support a bad idea.