On Fri, 2022-09-16 at 22:41 +0200, Étienne Mollier wrote:
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.
Due to the Itanium hardware ecosystem no longer producing newer CPUs,
ia64 likely could never become an official port again, but some of the
unofficial Debian ports may at some point get unofficial releases
as part of the proposed tier system for Debian architectures. That
requires infrastructure changes and probably won't happen soon though.
https://debconf22.debconf.org/talks/47-investigating-a-tier-system-for-release-architectures/
https://gobby.debian.org/export/debconf22/bof/tier-architecture-system
I expect that the folks working on the unofficial Debian ia64 port
would welcome donations of extra hardware for build/porting servers,
please contact the debian-ia64 mailing list if you can do that.
https://lists.debian.org/debian-ia64/
In case you would like to contribute to the unofficial Debian ia64
port, probably a lot of the steps in the new port document need to
be re-done or polished for ia64.
https://wiki.debian.org/PortsDocs/New