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On Thu, 2012-06-21 at 15:43 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Should we even be compiling this code in an i386 build?

Some people still run i386 kernels on their brand spanking new Intel
hardware.. So yeah probably.

But yeah, we could make it x86_64 only.. not really a strong case
though.