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/a4085ca68e49f49f962ddff46a90...
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...
Tomas