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SubjectRe: Drop support for x86-32
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On Friday 24 August 2012 17:55:08 wbrana wrote:
> On 8/24/12, Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@petrovitsch.priv.at> wrote:
> > You really think that there are no 32bit x86-compatible CPUs in the
> > embedded world?
>
> x86-32 would be supported by long term tree until all x86-32 CPU disappear

Ahh..., so the development time saved by not supporting x86-32 in mainline can
now be used by backporting new features to the forementioned long term tree?

(And I'm still not sure why one would run 32-bit applications on a 64-bit
architecture...)

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Cheers,
Martin


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