Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933543Ab2HXUrg (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Aug 2012 16:47:36 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:39316 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933305Ab2HXUrd (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Aug 2012 16:47:33 -0400 Message-ID: <5037E845.2010306@zytor.com> Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 13:47:01 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120605 Thunderbird/13.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Borislav Petkov , Dave Jones , "Theodore Ts'o" , Alan Cox , Brian Gerst , wbrana , Martin Nybo Andersen , linux-kernel Subject: Re: Drop support for x86-32 References: <201208231814.21168.tweek@tweek.dk> <5037C530.3000408@zytor.com> <20120824185741.GC5094@thunk.org> <20120824201358.0f086c9a@pyramind.ukuu.org.uk> <20120824195856.GD5094@thunk.org> <20120824200642.GA8543@redhat.com> <20120824202544.GA23427@liondog.tnic> In-Reply-To: <20120824202544.GA23427@liondog.tnic> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1145 Lines: 34 On 08/24/2012 01:25 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 04:06:42PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote: >> On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 03:58:56PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: >> >> > BTW, it turns out I was wrong about Linux being used on Mars. >> > Apparently Linux was used on the Mars Global Surveyor, as well as the >> > Sprit and Opportunity rovers >> >> citation? My recollection was that they were running VxWorks. > > ... on a "a radiation-hardened version of the IBM PowerPC 750." So no > x86. > > http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2408127,00.asp > That is Curiosity (Mars Science Laboratory), not Spirit/Opportunity (Mars Exploration Rover). However, Wikipedia lists the CPU on the MERs as a 20 MHz IBM RAD6000 CPU, running VxWorks. If you want x86, there are definitely newer things than 386: http://www.sandia.gov/media/rhp.htm ... that was almost 14 years ago now. -hpa -- 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/