From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
To: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>, Neal Gompa <neal@gompa.dev>,
Tomas Glozar <tglozar@kernel.org>,
"Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@orcam.me.uk>,
Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] x86: Start removing X86_X32_ABI
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2026 09:36:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260708073648.c4xJo-8d@linutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b36657b785eb2b476ebf08162bf80cd02fba109b.camel@physik.fu-berlin.de>
On 2026-07-08 08:31:30 [+0200], John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> Hello,
Hi,
> > Since there is practically no real use for x32, start removing it by
> > removing the symbol first, not allowing to enable it. Should nothing
> > happening by the end of the year, it will removed after the last LTS
> > kernel this year.
>
> As mentioned before, there are still actively maintained Debian and Gentoo
> ports of x32, so I guess the last paragraph is rather subjective.
On the Debian ports side: lacks a browser like firefox or chromium. No
native ocaml compiler. libreoffice is not present.
Not once released in contrast to kFreeBSD.
This does not look like healthy port that will become eventually a
release architecture. To quote the introduction paragraph of ports.d.o:
| The goal of this machine is to provide an infrastructure for unofficial
| architectures until they are integrated in the main Debian archive.
> Adrian
Sebastian
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-07-08 7:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-07 21:22 [PATCH v2] x86: Start removing X86_X32_ABI Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2026-07-08 5:45 ` Arnd Bergmann
2026-07-08 6:31 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2026-07-08 7:36 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior [this message]
2026-07-08 11:26 ` Arnd Bergmann
2026-07-08 11:51 ` Richard Purdie
2026-07-08 12:22 ` Sam James
2026-07-08 12:44 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2026-07-08 12:33 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2026-07-08 13:16 ` Arnd Bergmann
2026-07-08 16:27 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2026-07-08 20:26 ` David Laight
2026-07-08 23:58 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2026-07-10 20:59 ` H. Peter Anvin
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