Re: [PATCH] x86 NUMA panic compile error

H. Peter Anvin
2006-05-17T01:21:44Z

Dave Jones wrote:
> On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 04:06:18PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > Followup to: <200605152111.20693.ak@suse.de>
> > By author: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
> > In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> > >
> > > > x86 is a legacy architecture now anyway, right? ;)
> > > I wish everybody would agree on that @)
> > >
> >
> > It's going to live on for a very long time, though. Intel is still
> > shipping some very fast 64-bit-deficient silicon. Once that's gone,
> > it's going to live on for decades in the embedded world.
>
> There's also a surprising number of people still running
> their shiny new x86-64's in 32 bit mode. (I suspect because
> they're reliant upon applications that aren't 64-bit clean
> that for whatever reason don't run in 32-bit emulation).
>
> I'd be surprised if any of the major distros stopped shipping
> a 32-bit x86 release for several years.
>

Yup. In fact, I wish Fedora had the 32-bit Firefox, at least as an option. I keep having
to add the 32-bit repos for that reason alone :(

-hpa