From: Martin Nybo Andersen <tweek@tweek.dk>
To: wbrana <wbrana@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Drop support for x86-32
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 18:14:16 +0200
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        Ondrej Zary <linux@rainbow-software.org>,
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On Friday 24 August 2012 17:55:08 wbrana wrote:
> On 8/24/12, Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@petrovitsch.priv.at> wrote:
> > You really think that there are no 32bit x86-compatible CPUs in the
> > embedded world?
> 
> x86-32 would be supported by long term tree until all x86-32 CPU disappear

Ahh..., so the development time saved by not supporting x86-32 in mainline can 
now be used by backporting new features to the forementioned long term tree?

(And I'm still not sure why one would run 32-bit applications on a 64-bit 
architecture...)

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Cheers,
Martin
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