Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758827Ab2HYAvJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Aug 2012 20:51:09 -0400 Received: from mail-pb0-f46.google.com ([209.85.160.46]:47292 "EHLO mail-pb0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752591Ab2HYAvH (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Aug 2012 20:51:07 -0400 Message-ID: <50382175.1020305@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2012 10:51:01 +1000 From: Cruz Julian Bishop User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120714 Thunderbird/14.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: wbrana CC: Martin Nybo Andersen , Chris Friesen , 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=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: 1802 Lines: 41 On 25/08/12 03:05, 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. People won't want to be forced to stick with an old version of the kernel which, as you said, will not have any backported features. People deserve the choice to use whatever they have, however they want. That's the way it works. The was it has been, currently is, and always will be. ...Unless someone at Microsoft* holds Linus hostage** in order to take over Linux kernel development. Not that it's likely to ever happen *Not being a troll or hurling personal insults at Microsoft - It's just that they currently have the majority share on the desktop (and made the original announcement for W9) **If this ever happens, even if it's by a terrorist group and not a company, please don't sue me for conspiracy to kidnapping. It was just an example :) > >> These legacy apps will most likely be compiled for x86-32 and not x32 (an >> argument for not removing x86-32 support on a running x86-64 kernel). > Which legacy apps do you mean? > -- > 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/ -- 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/