In a stunning revelation from 2004, we learn that uninitialized garbage on #ia64 is dangerous—who would've guessed? 😱 The article then detours into a parade of Microsoft buzzwords, reminding us that tech jargon is the ultimate cure for #insomnia. 💤
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20040119-00/?p=41003 #uninitializedgarbage #Microsoftbuzzwords #techjargon #cybersecurity #HackerNews #ngated
#ia64
Uninitialized garbage on ia64 can be deadly (2004)
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20040119-00/?p=41003
#HackerNews #Uninitialized #garbage #ia64 #deadly #programming #security
“Athlon 64: How AMD Turned The Tables On Intel”, Dave Farquhar (https://dfarq.homeip.net/athlon-64-how-amd-turned-the-tables-on-intel/).
Via HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45376605
On Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/s/idcny5/athlon_64_how_amd_turned_tables_on_intel
A nice account of how #Intel spent far too much time & money with #HP on the doomed #Itanium 64-bit #CPU, only to be beaten by #AMD with #Athlon (with help from #Microsoft):
“The Long Mode Chronicles”, Phil Park (https://computerparkitecture.substack.com/p/the-long-mode-chronicles).
Hey #Intel and other hashtags!
What was your thoughts on #IntelItanium or #IA64 and what was your experience if you had any? I’ve not had any personal experience, but I’m curious to hear yours!
Can’t wait to read!
Will be streaming my Intel Itanium Software Development Vehicle (SDV) tonight! It’s been awhile since I booted it up so I’ve no idea what OS I’ve got installed on it! Will be live at 5pm PDT on #Twitch! #ia64
A big thank you to Tommy for the donation of this machine to the channel
Watch live at 5pm PDT at https://twitch.tv/RetroHoosk
Today I begin my journey of porting the Illumos kernel to Itanium. I started reading the Solaris 10 internals book for a reference on some aspects of it's design. I hope to also do some work patching some issues and generally contributing to this lovely project.
#illumos #illumosia64 #Itanium #ia64 #foss #operatingsystems
Just got a server unit!!!!
so, we #undeleted #Intel #IA64 #Itanium support and enabled experimental #GCC LRA-by-default, ... works pretty good for a obsolete, dead and deleted architecture: #t2sde #opensource #Linux https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Db723d9IRYU https://www.instagram.com/p/C326MCBItU3/
look what #fsf made me do: do we really need to step up maintaining #GCC for #intel #IA64 #Itanium? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9YOVFrhoPY #opensource #t2sde #Linux
It's wild to me that we keep putrified architectures around in #Linux for that long in the first place. And then when we finally remove it people argue for them to be put back in.
I really have a hard time understanding this.
I had one of those ia64 servers at home for about a month which I actually picked up from someone in Berlin just to fscking test copy_thread() changes in 9ba27414f2ec
And with that, #Itanium aka #IA64/IA-64 support is gone from the #Linux #kernel:
https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/c/1e0c505e13162a2abe7c984309cfe2ae976b428d
https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/c/cf8e8658100d4eae80ce9b21f7a81cb024dd5057 (that's the main removal patch, which is about ~2 MByte big)
Bye bye!
#Linux 6.7 Set To Drop Support For #Itanium #IA64
There is also a build fix so at least Linux 6.6, which is expected to be this year's Long Term Support (LTS) kernel release will at least have IA-64 support in good standing should anyone actually use it.
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.7-To-Drop-Itanium-IA-64
A nearly 2 MByte big patch to remove #Itanium (#IA64) architecture support from the #LinuxKernel is now in #Linux-next and thus (for now) slated for #kernel 6.7:
Before it hit that tree, it was discussed on #LKML a week ago:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230911163129.3777603-2-ardb@google.com/
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