Re: [PATCH 6.6 0000/1226] 6.6.145-rc2 review

[Tomas Glozar <tglozar@kernel.org>]

čt 23. 7. 2026 v 11:33 odesílatel Tomáš Glozar <tglozar@gmail.com> napsal:
>
> I have been doing various experiments with the architecture in the
> past 5 years, and co-maintaining an out-of-tree patchset for the past
> 3 years. This patch also originally comes from there [1] - that's why
> it has my signoff, too.
>
> [1] https://github.com/linux-ia64/linux-ia64/commit/a4085ca68e49f49f962ddff46a901ff3468574b8
>
> Tomas

[somehow the mailing list seems not to have accepted that, trying git
send-email through kernel.org server next...]

...I did not notice the fork was already mentioned in the thread, sorry! To
elaborate: we have a small community and had quite a few updates recently.
I ported Rust/LLVM to ia64 in the past two months [1], someone else has an
experimental branch for re-added Altix support in the SGI hobbyist community
even with graphics (and KDE Plasma) [2], and we have at least a few other
users on the T2 Linux Discord server and elsewhere.

It's nothing like mainstream interest, maybe roughly comparable to PA-RISC,
but it's not dead either, and interest might grow as more machines will go out
of production and enter the second-hand marked following the recent
discontinuation of (at least base level) HP-UX and HP Integrity support.

[1] https://github.com/linux-ia64/rust, https://github.com/linux-ia64/llvm-project;
recently it got good enough to run Firefox:
https://forums.irixnet.org/thread-4971-post-36303.html#pid36303

[2] https://nsafran.com/blog/010-sn2-t2-install.html,
https://forums.sgi.sh/index.php?threads/modern-linux-and-gpu-3d-acceleration-for-sgi-altix.1547/

Tomas