Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 23 Aug 2012 15:35:19 -0400 | Subject | Re: Drop support for x86-32 | From | Brian Gerst <> |
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On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 3:08 PM, wbrana <wbrana@gmail.com> wrote: > On 8/23/12, Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> wrote: >> Nobody here cares about closed source drivers. > There are also open source software which don't support X32 like > Oracle Java, VirtualBox, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome.
As I said before, X32 is an optional ABI in 64-bit kernels, for 64-bit userspace code using 32-bit pointers to save memory. Userspace software doesn't have to support it, it can just go full 64-bit. Any kernel that supports X32 also supports the full 64-bit ABI.
-- Brian Gerst
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