Editing Itanium (section)

==== Deprecation ====

In 2009, Red Hat dropped Itanium support in Enterprise Linux 6.<ref name="red-hat-to-drop-itanium">{{Cite web|last=Ricknäs|first=Mikael|date=2009-12-21|title=Red Hat to drop Itanium support in Enterprise Linux 6|url=https://www.computerworld.com/article/2522241/red-hat-to-drop-itanium-support-in-enterprise-linux-6.html|access-date=2021-10-14|website=[[Computerworld]]|language=en|archive-date=2021-10-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211028172143/https://www.computerworld.com/article/2522241/red-hat-to-drop-itanium-support-in-enterprise-linux-6.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Ubuntu 10.10 dropped support for Itanium.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Clark|first=Jack|title=SPARC and Itanium support discontinued in Ubuntu 10.10|url=https://www.zdnet.com/article/sparc-and-itanium-support-discontinued-in-ubuntu-10-10/|access-date=2021-10-14|website=ZDNet|language=en|archive-date=2021-10-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211029180056/https://www.zdnet.com/article/sparc-and-itanium-support-discontinued-in-ubuntu-10-10/|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2021, Linus Torvalds marked the Itanium code as orphaned. Torvalds said:

"HPE no longer accepts orders for new Itanium hardware, and Intel stopped accepting orders a year ago. While intel is still officially shipping chips until July 29, 2021, it's unlikely that any such orders actually exist. [[He's dead, Jim|It's dead, Jim]]."<ref>{{Cite news|first=Tim|last=Anderson|title='It's dead, Jim': Torvalds marks Intel Itanium processors as orphaned in Linux kernel|url=https://www.theregister.com/2021/02/01/linux_pulls_itanium_support/|access-date=2021-10-14|work=[[The Register]]|language=en|archive-date=2021-10-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211029174912/https://www.theregister.com/2021/02/01/linux_pulls_itanium_support/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git - Linux kernel source tree|url=https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=228345bf98cd78f91d007478a51f9a471489e44a|access-date=2021-10-14|website=[[kernel.org]]|archive-date=2021-11-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211103183816/https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=228345bf98cd78f91d007478a51f9a471489e44a|url-status=live}}</ref>

Support for Itanium was removed in Linux 6.7<ref>{{Cite web |title=kernel/git/next/linux-next.git - The linux-next integration testing tree |url=https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/commit/?id=cf8e8658100d4eae80ce9b21f7a81cb024dd5057 |access-date=2023-09-18 |website=git.kernel.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Linux 6.7 Set To Drop Support For Itanium IA-64 |url=https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.7-To-Drop-Itanium-IA-64 |access-date=2023-09-18 |website=www.phoronix.com |language=en}}</ref> and is since then maintained [[wiktionary:out-of-tree|out-of-tree]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://github.com/linux-ia64/ |title=linux-ia64 |website=GitHub |quote=Maintenance and development of the Linux operating system for Intel Itanium architecture (IA-64) |access-date=October 1, 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://epic-linux.org/ |title=EPIC Linux |access-date=October 1, 2024}}</ref>