Re: ia64 maintainership (resend)

[Frank Scheiner]

Dear Tomas,

On 24.09.23 19:20, Tomáš Glozar wrote:
> Hello linux-ia64,
>
> I noticed following the news of the proposal to remove ia64 from the
> kernel that the architecture has no maintainer. I'd be happy to
> volunteer to maintain the architecture, should the decision of removal
> be reversed.
>
> I'm not the ideal candidate, since I never contributed anything to the
> code, but I have an Itanium machine running Linux to test on, some
> spare time, and I've contributed a few patches as a part of my job of
> kernel developer at Red Hat.
>
> I'm also a contributor to T2 SDE, a source-based community Linux
> distribution supporting various architectures including Alpha, HP
> PA-RISC, and Itanium. I have interest in the architecture, having done
> some experiments on it with code performance.
>
> Tomas Glozar
>
> PS: Original email got sent in multipart format by mistake, re-sending
> as plain text, sorry about that.

Great! I'd be happy to support you with my kernel testing.

Also CCing this to Debian's and Gentoo's ia64 lists.

Cheers,
Frank