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    SubjectRe: Drop support for x86-32
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    ESA has the Leon series (SPARC)...

    Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:

    >On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 11:17:20AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
    >>
    >> Speaking as one of the x86 maintainers... we are currently deciding
    >the
    >> cost/benefit tradeoff around removing i386 support. I don't mean
    >> general x86-32 support, I mean i386 as opposed to i486, Pentium, and
    >so on.
    >
    >Random question. As I recall the Space Shuttle and the International
    >Space Station was only using 80386's because they have to be hardened
    >against radiation/cosmic rays, as well as all of the other mechnical
    >and thermal stresses associated with being in a spacecraft. Is there
    >any newer generation cpu's which are space-cerified at this point?
    >
    >(Of course, I'm rather doubtful that NASA would ever be willing to use
    >Linux on something like the Curiosity Mars Rover, but I could imagine
    >Linux being used in a non-mission critcal system on the ISS....)
    >
    > - Ted

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