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Re:The push to save the Itanium architecture in Linux by orrymr on Thursday November 16, 2023 @06:08AM (#38288140)
Bit of a noob-ish question: But why can't folks just continue to use older versions of the kernel, with the ia64 support?
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Re:The push to save the Itanium architecture in Linux by RetroTechie on Thursday November 16, 2023 @06:55AM (#38288462)
They can. But bugfixes may not be packported due to lack of developers. Same with drivers for newer hardware which (potentially) could be plugged into an Itanium system.

Worse if such newer code relies on kernel infrastructure that changed in the meanwhile.

For users that don't ever change their setup, there's no issue really.

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