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This cycle also saw the switch from Binutils 2.42 to 2.43.1. And like for the v6.10 cycle (see last update on [1] for details) each release candidate and release in this cycle was always built with the latest gcc-15 snapshot (w/LRA enabled) available. [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/8dcb5d36-fc38-46f3-bb97-0e4e335c313b@online.d= e/ Unfortunately I was a little too optimistic at the end and changed my used kernel config at the last minute (i.e. for the v6.11 release) to help with testing on Tomas' rx2620 and OS installation with btrfs support and 64 KB page size. But that change must have somehow broken successful operation inside the initrd on my rx4640. Well, the rx4640 is not technically broken with v6.11, because it continues to work when using a kernel based on Tomas' tree ([2]) on top of v6.11 with the very same config. And my per-release (candidate) branches also showed no regressions for the other machines (rx2620. rx2660, rx6600, rx2800 i2, not to forget hp-sim, but uses a different config) with the exact same initrd and v6.11. So maybe I should retest all real machines with a kernel made with my older kernel config to be sure. [2]: https://github.com/linux-ia64/linux-ia64/ [3]: https://github.com/johnny-mnemonic/linux-ia64/ **** Again no new additions to the selection of Linux distributions for ia64 this time - or at least I'm not aware of any. In the meantime Gentoo dropped support for ia64, too, which honestly came as a surprise. I used Gentoo some years ago for some time starting on a rx2660. I later also used it on a rx2800 i2, because their ia64 kernel was the only one that could run on the latter back then. I never found out exactly what was responsible for this oddity, but fortunately it was somehow solved in mainline some time later. So, farewell Gentoo/ia64. You were very useful in times, thanks for that and to all people involved to make that happen in the past. This leaves T2/SDE and EPIC Slack as possibly the last remaining active Linux distributions supporting ia64 machines for the time being. But that can change easily, like it happened for MIPS and Alpha, if we look at the latest headline over at gentoo.org: https://www.gentoo.org/news/2024/09/11/Improved-MIPS-and-Alpha-support.htm= l **** One more thing: So far we missed a public place were people can find current information about Linux/ia64. This gap is now closed by epic-linux.org ([4]). There you'll find a collection of resources around ia64, including news, current code, our CIs, our testing effort, Linux distributions supporting ia64, supported machines and links to other sites related to ia64. And possibly even more in the future. [4]: http://epic-linux.org/ **** Thank you all for your hard work on Linux! Cheers, Frank et al