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Overnight the mainline Linux kernel has retired support for Intel Itanium (IA-64) processors.

In recent years the Itanium support in the Linux kernel has went downhill with not many users left testing new kernels on aging Itanium servers.

On and off for months there’s been talk of retiring Itanium from the Linux kernel and now it’s finally happened.

With Linux 6.6 expected to be this year’s Long-Term Support (LTS) kernel version, there was the proposal recently to drop Itanium in Linux 6.7 and indeed it’s successfully happened.

The asm-generic pull cleared out all of the IA-64 architecture support for a “well-earned retirement.”

While in the early days of Itanium there was hopes it would eventually replace x86/x86_64, that just never came to be with the success of x86_64.

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