Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759954Ab2HXRZ7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Aug 2012 13:25:59 -0400 Received: from exprod7og101.obsmtp.com ([64.18.2.155]:42125 "EHLO exprod7og101.obsmtp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759938Ab2HXRZ4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Aug 2012 13:25:56 -0400 Message-ID: <5037B8FD.9060604@genband.com> Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 11:25:17 -0600 From: Chris Friesen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.24) Gecko/20111108 Fedora/3.1.16-1.fc14 Lightning/1.0b3pre Thunderbird/3.1.16 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: wbrana CC: Martin Nybo Andersen , Bernd Petrovitsch , Ondrej Zary , linux-kernel Subject: Re: Drop support for x86-32 References: <201208241814.16862.tweek@tweek.dk> <5037AAB0.6040102@genband.com> <201208241854.45656.tweek@tweek.dk> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 24 Aug 2012 17:25:21.0362 (UTC) FILETIME=[7050D320:01CD821D] X-TM-AS-Product-Ver: SMEX-8.0.0.4160-6.500.1024-19136.000 X-TM-AS-Result: No--1.208800-8.000000-31 X-TM-AS-User-Approved-Sender: No X-TM-AS-User-Blocked-Sender: No Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 846 Lines: 20 On 08/24/2012 11:05 AM, wbrana wrote: > On 8/24/12, Martin Nybo Andersen wrote: >> What I'd hate even more is rendering my old working hardware useless by >> removing x86-32 support from the kernel. To reason the removal by saying >> "Microsoft plans to do it" just makes me go bonkers... > Your old hardware will work fine with long term kernel. Give it up. x86-32 support isn't going away for a long time. The kernel exists to support existing hardware, not the other way around. As long as people want to keep using x86-32 on linux, it will continue to be supported. Chris -- 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/