Hi Jesse, Jesse Dougherty, on 2022-09-16: > Hi, I'm Jesse.. I work for a company that sells HP hardware. We sell HP > Itanium servers. I have a user that wants to buy a few servers and have > Debian loaded on them. Can you tell me what versions of Debian are supported > on ia64 / HP Itanium server platforms? Short answer: none. To the best of my knowledge, there is still a port alive of Debian for ia64 architecture[1,2], but support is not official in the sense of a "Release architecture"[3,4] for contemporary Debian version 11 bullseye. Given that we lost support for ia64 on kernel side[6], I don't expect future Debian versions will support officially this CPU architecture again. I believe the last Debian version to have had support for ia64 as release architecture was Debian 7 wheezy[6]. This version is unmaintained for years, so wouldn't recommend it for any serious use as it misses many security fixes. Other option would be to try to put a Debian unstable station together with resources made available via ports[1,2]. None of these options sound exactly suitable for sales, except to hobbyists knowing what they are doing perhaps. [1]: https://www.ports.debian.org/ [2]: https://wiki.debian.org/Ports/ia64 [3]: https://release.debian.org/testing/arch_qualify.html [4]: https://release.debian.org/testing/arch_policy.html [5]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=228345bf98cd78f91d007478a51f9a471489e44a [6]: https://release.debian.org/wheezy/arch_qualify.html In hope this helps nonetheless, -- Étienne Mollier <emollier@emlwks999.eu> Fingerprint: 8f91 b227 c7d6 f2b1 948c 8236 793c f67e 8f0d 11da Sent from /dev/pts/2, please excuse my verbosity. On air: Porcupine Tree - Buying New Soul
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