Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964897Ab2HWRWV (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Aug 2012 13:22:21 -0400 Received: from mail-lb0-f174.google.com ([209.85.217.174]:50524 "EHLO mail-lb0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755128Ab2HWRWJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Aug 2012 13:22:09 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <201208231814.21168.tweek@tweek.dk> References: <201208231814.21168.tweek@tweek.dk> Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 19:22:07 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Drop support for x86-32 From: wbrana To: Martin Nybo Andersen Cc: linux-kernel Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 795 Lines: 17 x86-32 - is deprecated since Linux supports X32. - will slow down adoption of X32 - there won't be X32 versions of many software - if new ABI was added, old one should be removed - wastes time of developers who can spend their time supporting X32 instead of x86-32 or support x86-64 only as 99% of users will be able to run x86-64 software if x86-32 will be dropped - wouldn't be dropped this year, but there should be plan when it will be dropped e.g. when Windows 9 will be released On 8/23/12, Martin Nybo Andersen wrote: > Why? -- 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/