Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759015Ab2HYA5R (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Aug 2012 20:57:17 -0400 Received: from mail-pz0-f46.google.com ([209.85.210.46]:52300 "EHLO mail-pz0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753363Ab2HYA5P (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Aug 2012 20:57:15 -0400 Message-ID: <503822E6.5040500@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2012 10:57:10 +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: Alan Cox CC: wbrana , Chen , linux-kernel Subject: Re: Drop support for x86-32 References: <201208231814.21168.tweek@tweek.dk> <201208231951.28606.linux@rainbow-software.org> <1345812057.28613.20.camel@thorin> <1345823281.28613.34.camel@thorin> <20120824173626.0194625c@pyramind.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20120824173626.0194625c@pyramind.ukuu.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1275 Lines: 29 On 25/08/12 02:36, Alan Cox wrote: >> almost all x86-32 boxes will be trash in 2017, remaining boxes will >> use long term tree > People will still be manufacturing 32bit x86 processors in 2017 I'm quite > sure. You appear entirely out of touch. There are already serious > discussions going on about things like the kernel modifications needed to > make 32bit systems run past 2038. > > Besides which what Linux supports is defined by what peope chose to > contribute code for. We support 32bit 680x0 machines that have been > obsolete for nigh on 20 years because someone chooses to support them. > > For that matter if someone comes along with DEC-10 port and it works as > was clean without messing up the core I'm sure we'd add that too! Is that a hint? :P > Alan > > > -- > 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/