Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 20:39:27 -0400
From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86 NUMA panic compile error
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On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 04:06:18PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
 > Followup to:  <200605152111.20693.ak@suse.de>
 > By author:    Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
 > In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
 > > 
 > > > x86 is a legacy architecture now anyway, right? ;)
 > > I wish everybody would agree on that @)
 > > 
 > 
 > It's going to live on for a very long time, though.  Intel is still
 > shipping some very fast 64-bit-deficient silicon.  Once that's gone,
 > it's going to live on for decades in the embedded world.

There's also a surprising number of people still running
their shiny new x86-64's in 32 bit mode.  (I suspect because
they're reliant upon applications that aren't 64-bit clean
that for whatever reason don't run in 32-bit emulation).

I'd be surprised if any of the major distros stopped shipping
a 32-bit x86 release for several years.

		Dave

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