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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com> writes:

> Dropping 32-bit host support would certainly kill a lot of #ifdefs and
> reduce the amount of testing needed.  

Sounds like a good thing.

> It would also force me to upgrade my home machine.

Why? AFAIK there are no VT machines that don't support EM64T.

If you mean you have 32bit userland you can certainly use a 64bit kernel
with 32bit userland.

-Andi