[LTP] [PATCH] syscalls/mprotect04: Fix compilation error for ia64

Petr Vorel pvorel@suse.cz
Mon Jul 29 16:32:13 CEST 2019


Hi Cyril, Jan,

> > Hi!
> > > > Thanks, I missed the ia64-specific code. RHEL dropped support for
> > > > ia64 in RHEL6, and RHEL5 will likely be EOL in ~6 months, so I'm
> > > > fine either way.
> > > Thanks for a quick reply. So it's up to Cyril, whether keep the
> > > support or not.

> > Hmm, the last processors were made in 2017 but looking at TOP500 systems
> > there was peek for itanim in 2004 and there were pretty nonexistent
> > since 2012. Given that officially supported distros are going EOL soon
> > enough I do not think that it makes sense to keep itanium specific code
> > just so that 0.1% of our tests works on these processors.
> Agree. OK, I'll remove ia64 specific code.
Merged as 5c60b7230. I'm sorry I forget to add your ack.

Kind regards,
Petr


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