Post Syndicated from jzb original https://lwn.net/Articles/986030/

The Gentoo Linux project has
announced
that it is dropping support for Itanium:

Following the removal of IA-64 (Itanium)
support in the Linux kernel
and glibc,
and subsequent discussions on our mailing list, as well as
a vote by the Gentoo Council, Gentoo will discontinue all ia64
profiles and keywords. The primary reason for this decision is the
inability of the Gentoo IA-64 team to support this architecture
without kernel support, glibc support, and a functional development
box (or even a well-established emulator). In addition, there have
been only very few users interested in this type of hardware.