Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] removal of ia64 port

["KUWAMURA Shin'ya" <kuwa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Jan,

Thank you for your work on ia64.
I am sorry that ia64 remains broken for a long time.

>>>>> On Wed, 21 Mar 2012 08:45:24 +0000
>>>>> JBeulich@xxxxxxxx("Jan Beulich")  said:
> 
> 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).

I hope that ia64 code remains in xen-unstable for the time being.
I am inspecting the problem of hypervisor now.

Current ia64 status is:

- xen-4.0-testing: work
It still work on ia64 with small fixes. I will send patches later.

- xen-4.1-testing: probably work with xend
  - libxl does not work on ia64.

- xen-unstable: not work
  - The hypervisor cannot boot.
  - It worked on ia64 in October, 2010.

Best regards,
-- 
  KUWAMURA Shin'ya

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