Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Can we drop upstream Linux x32 support? | From | Steven Newbury <> | Date | Wed, 12 Dec 2018 13:27:13 +0000 |
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On Wed, 2018-12-12 at 10:48 +0000, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Steven Newbury dixit: > > >I can't help but wonder if it wouldn't make more sense to drop x86 > >support from long mode than x32. AMD64 x86 support was always > intended > > Do you mean i386? > > x86 = { i386, x32, amd64 } > Yes, sorry to be unclear. I mean the "IA32 ISA".
> No, please don’t. I use i386 as “companion architecture” to x32, > only the kernel and actually memory-hungry things (qemu) are > amd64 binaries on my system, and this works very well. > Well, if you have amd64 qemu anyway, why can't you use binfmt_misc with qemu-user to simulate i386? I'm just saying that makes more sense to me than dropping x32. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
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