Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752795AbbDAPvw (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Apr 2015 11:51:52 -0400 Received: from arcturus.aphlor.org ([188.246.204.175]:34892 "EHLO arcturus.aphlor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752042AbbDAPvu (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Apr 2015 11:51:50 -0400 Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2015 11:50:30 -0400 From: Dave Jones To: "Luck, Tony" Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" , One Thousand Gnomes , Ingo Molnar , Robert Richter , Borislav Petkov , LKML , "H. Peter Anvin" , Thomas Gleixner , Peter Zijlstra , Steven Rostedt , Andy Lutomirski , Matt Fleming , =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rg_R=F6del?= , Jiri Kosina , Jeff Mahoney , Michal Hocko , Vlastimil Babka , Andre Przywara , Andreas Herrmann , Richard Weinberger , Linus Torvalds , Andi Kleen Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Drop 32-bit support ... finally. Message-ID: <20150401155029.GA23978@codemonkey.org.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , "Luck, Tony" , Theodore Ts'o , One Thousand Gnomes , Ingo Molnar , Robert Richter , Borislav Petkov , LKML , "H. Peter Anvin" , Thomas Gleixner , Peter Zijlstra , Steven Rostedt , Andy Lutomirski , Matt Fleming , =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rg_R=F6del?= , Jiri Kosina , Jeff Mahoney , Michal Hocko , Vlastimil Babka , Andre Przywara , Andreas Herrmann , Richard Weinberger , Linus Torvalds , Andi Kleen References: <1427876158-18323-1-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de> <20150401082156.GA18371@pd.tnic> <20150401085600.GG4201@rric.localhost> <20150401115803.GA20149@gmail.com> <20150401154155.08f796db@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20150401154119.GC7105@thunk.org> <3908561D78D1C84285E8C5FCA982C28F32A3DF5B@ORSMSX114.amr.corp.intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3908561D78D1C84285E8C5FCA982C28F32A3DF5B@ORSMSX114.amr.corp.intel.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-Spam-Score: -2.9 (--) X-Spam-Report: Spam report generated by SpamAssassin on "arcturus.aphlor.org" Content analysis details: (-2.9 points, 5.0 required) pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- -1.0 ALL_TRUSTED Passed through trusted hosts only via SMTP -1.9 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] X-Authenticated-User: davej@codemonkey.org.uk Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 842 Lines: 18 On Wed, Apr 01, 2015 at 03:46:37PM +0000, Luck, Tony wrote: > > Hey! My father still has a PDP-15/30, complete with core memory, 4 > > DECtape units, and a high speed punched paper tape reader, all in > > a really tiny footprint of 4 full-height 19 inch racks, in his house. > > It hasn't been turned on in over a decade, but doesn't deserve a Free > > Unixlike OS of its own? :-) > > It would be greener to write a java emulator to run in a browser on a phone (1e4 less power? 1e5??) > Probably run 100x faster too. I wonder at what point do we say the same thing about ia64 ? Dave -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/