Saving the Intel's Itanic! T2 Linux commits to a decade or two prolonged EPIC HP IA-64 support!
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0:00 Introduction
20:00 Q&A
by Bits inside by René Rebe
linux foundation
Not only Itanium works on Linux, but unlike HPPA, SPARC, and SGI workstations, Itanium has first-class support: everything including the firmware, graphics card, disk controllers etc. was supported in Linux directly by the hardware vendors during the support life of the machines (there are even machines like SGI Altix which only run Linux!). Since no new hardware is produced, the code only needs some minor maintanance when intefaces change.
That video thumbnail is absolutely hilarious!
By that logic,Torwald please delete x86-64, because most systems run on on Arm
Itanium works, I don't understand why Linux kernel devs are rushing to stop support for Itanium. It's not that they've to maintain Itanium (e.g. do regular changes) yet they've committed to kill it.
It seems like only T2 (and very rare Linux distros) will still keep Itanium support. Even NetBSD doesn't have a working Itanium port, and there's no update from them…
Thank you Rene for keeping up your hard work! 😀 T2 is an exceptional player!
Deprecate 32 bit x86 by same logic
I shall give this a try on a rx2660. Thanks very much for this
I'm looking forward to playing with this when the architecture is emulated enough to run Linux!
Itanium 💜
I owned a dual liquid cooled G5 then I got the Intel version it was faster and did not sound like an aircraft taking off.
My power bill was lower and the room was cooler.
Except for the nostalgia and collecting old stuff supporting these old obsolete hardware just takes too much effort and too big of a test surface.
I have ClassiCube and Tux Racer running on my rx2620 system, mostly slowed down by 2003 NVIDIA card together with nouveau drivers.
Thank you for this video and your take on this.
I really do not understand this strange attitude of the Linux folks. On the one hand, they say “Linux runs on everything” like some kind of superiority statement, on the other hand they celebrate whenever an architecture or legacy device driver gets removed. Like “wow, 10k lines of stable C source removed”, big deal… and then “oh, then just maintain it yourself, it’s open source”. If Linux had a more stable interface, perhaps yes, this would be more feasible. I am not a kernel developer, but every time I needed to apply a minor patch against a Linux kernel, it would usually fail (=not apply cleanly) unless it was 100% tailored for this particular minor release. Had less problems with FreeBSD for that matter. And also this attitude towards OpenZFS, making kernel interfaces “GPL only” out of spite and marking the kernel as “tainted” when a non-GPL kernel module gets loaded.