Linux looks to retire Itanium/IA64 support

It's been many years since Intel Itanium processors made a convincing story and faced a slow demise over the past decade. While the last of the Itanium 9700 Kittson" processors shipped in 2021, just two years later now the Linux kernel is already looking at possibly seeing its IA-64 support removed over having no maintainers or apparent users.

I have a morbid curiosity when it comes to Itanium, and I've been on the lookout for an Itanium workstation for two decades now. This is the first time where one of these Linux to deprecate some old unused architecture" posts might actually affect me at some point, and I'm outraged. Outraged, I tell you!