removal of ia64 port

[KUWAMURA Shin'ya]

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

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]

Hi Ian and Jan,

On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 10:13:04 +0100

Kuwamura, what is your motivation for wanting to keeping the ia64 port
in 4.2 and beyond?

As the result of my consideration,
I agree that ia64 port will be dropped on xen-unstable, since it seems
to be hardly needed:
- There was little discussion on xen-ia64-devel ML recently.
- There are few Xen ia64 developers.
- No new feature will be added.

Best regards,