Will anybody save Linux on Itanium? Absolutely not
Analysis No sooner than Intel IA64 support is removed from the Linux kernel, complaining about it begins… but the discussions are fascinating.
Although the proposal to remove support for Intel's infamous Itanium architecture - aka Itanic - from Linux was rebuffed in February, just weeks ago, in October, the move was approved for kernel 6.7. Just as one might expect, this has made a few people very angry and been narrowly regarded as a bad move. LWN has an excellent analysis about this under the title of the Push to save Itanium.
Linus Torvalds, meanwhile, has responded, saying...