From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from us-smtp-delivery-44.mimecast.com (us-smtp-delivery-44.mimecast.com [205.139.111.44]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 681543E49F7 for ; Thu, 23 Jul 2026 10:01:02 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=205.139.111.44 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1784800863; cv=none; b=fpvKuR5I7ilOJUu717wjZBu7e59+uL05Puc+E+BCGVKGL1GcSAf5mvcYL/pD4bgQZ3LMC8lExjEtgUi8Kq8MEUgNuRrUlZTE72ILR/zumKdI8YhSO5ZLq5HgOAqOVpJvSG3CD97o0/OLPA8bna8YqV7b2AQkCu2wQ8ajUR+cKhk= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1784800863; c=relaxed/simple; bh=WCk9xMxBjwaIX0F10/8F5TXKWptLwcm04TxL7kV13ww=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:References: MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=GqImFx4GTTI8Ocbw05pX4NXBBKbpmMS7JGln/91y79zSH6AV09xjA6Xf/pShNo6itItgAcjQKUVEHFmIZd4Jc2o0ogTsEZtFOQYRGwMKaO89bA5H6sApS3alV9Py0bpN2r9evPvF0vBDdaAKUzDEcTH3Ri8RX933Z5kdT2+Rups= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=fail (p=quarantine dis=none) header.from=kernel.org; spf=fail smtp.mailfrom=kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=205.139.111.44 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=fail (p=quarantine dis=none) header.from=kernel.org Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=fail smtp.mailfrom=kernel.org Received: from mx-prod-mc-05.mail-002.prod.us-west-2.aws.redhat.com (ec2-54-186-198-63.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com [54.186.198.63]) by relay.mimecast.com with ESMTP with STARTTLS (version=TLSv1.3, cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) id us-mta-459-eSBkw949OGKAl13PuBvbXA-1; Thu, 23 Jul 2026 05:54:13 -0400 X-MC-Unique: eSBkw949OGKAl13PuBvbXA-1 X-Mimecast-MFC-AGG-ID: eSBkw949OGKAl13PuBvbXA_1784800451 Received: from mx-prod-int-01.mail-002.prod.us-west-2.aws.redhat.com (mx-prod-int-01.mail-002.prod.us-west-2.aws.redhat.com [10.30.177.4]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by mx-prod-mc-05.mail-002.prod.us-west-2.aws.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D8FC2195604F; Thu, 23 Jul 2026 09:54:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fedora.brq.redhat.com (unknown [10.43.17.39]) by mx-prod-int-01.mail-002.prod.us-west-2.aws.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCB493000225; Thu, 23 Jul 2026 09:54:03 +0000 (UTC) From: Tomas Glozar To: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, patches@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux@roeck-us.net, shuah@kernel.org, patches@kernelci.org, lkft-triage@lists.linaro.org, pavel@nabladev.com, jonathanh@nvidia.com, f.fainelli@gmail.com, sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com, rwarsow@gmx.de, conor@kernel.org, hargar@microsoft.com, broonie@kernel.org, achill@achill.org, sr@sladewatkins.com, cc@epic-linux.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 6.6 0000/1226] 6.6.145-rc2 review Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2026 11:53:24 +0200 Message-ID: <20260723095326.1481919-1-tglozar@kernel.org> In-Reply-To: 2026072333-creed-overbite-b2a9@gregkh References: Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 3.4.1 on 10.30.177.4 čt 23. 7. 2026 v 11:33 odesílatel Tomáš Glozar 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