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I guess only legacy systems run on Itanium, and they probably won’t use the newest Linux kernel. Or as it seems, most of them don’t run Linux at all. If Linux
by andix 4y ago
I guess only legacy systems run on Itanium, and they probably won’t use the newest Linux kernel. Or as it seems, most of them don’t run Linux at all.
If Linux support would be important, I guess Intel or one of the mainframe manufacturers would chip in.
- johnklos 4y agoPart of the problem with the whole Itanic ecosystem is that Intel never spend much energy trying to improve gcc, instead improving and pushing their own compilers.
- jabl 4y agoI guess the thinking when they got started was that this FOSS stuff was for smelly hippies and not serious use. And once the world had converted to Itanium, having to buy Intel compilers to wring decent performance out of it, would have given Intel another big revenue stream. In other news, the Intel compiler suite has been recently refactored on top of clang&llvm. How the world turns..