Linux kernel cut it loose, now leading FOSS compiler lands depth-charge on Itanic
GNU Compiler Collection 14 should appear any month now, and when it does, it will no longer build binaries for IA64 – or Itanic, astarget ports which have been unmaintained for quite a while has been declared obsolete in GCC 14. The next release of GCC will have their sources permanently removed.FOSS desk prefers it to"x64".
, an important angle of Linux kernel development is which compiler you use. The kernel is the largest single FOSS software project in the world, and you can't just throw it at any old compiler and expect a working result. These days, there are two supported compilers: GCC, on multiple architectures, and Clang, which is based on LLVM, which primarily supports building kernels for x86-64 and Arm. About 20 years ago, you couldsome 15 years ago. It has been on its way out of the compiler suite for ages as well: it wasreader, who'd prefer to remain anonymous, for the tip. He commented:
I spent much of 1999-2004 porting software to it, which was a prime waste of time and money. I had realised by mid-2001 that it was a turkey.Meteor Lake CPUs splash down in socketed motherboards for edge and embedded workloads Intel reckons the NPUs that power the 'AI PC' are needed on your lap, on the edge, but not on the desktop
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