Re: drop ia64 from man pages?

[Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>]

On 7/16/25 12:30 PM, enh wrote:
> i didn't look at the other pages, but quite a lot on the clone(2) page
> is actually about what glibc does ... but glibc already removed all
> this stuff. so it should probably not be more than what we have for,
> say, m68k which is just "read your kernel/libc source for more"?
> 
> a corollary to "museum hardware should run museum software" might be
> "...and use museum documentation" :-)

Agreed.

There is a balance here between documentation that covers a reasonable
number of use cases, documentation that is easy to maintain, and
documentation that is easy to read (without superfluous information,
either too new or too old).

It has been about 1.5 years since IA64 started being dropped, and I
don't see any reason to keep very specific documentation about it
around except as smaller interesting historical notes.

-- 
Cheers,
Carlos.