From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from galois.linutronix.de (Galois.linutronix.de [193.142.43.55]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BE2B93F39E9 for ; Wed, 8 Jul 2026 07:36:57 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=193.142.43.55 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1783496223; cv=none; b=BrUumnoeMDDmMO1hbElknvWSisK6pRavKSyPoiBJo3M8wiprMBC64fuAcHJW24aAbPEv3X045Q49kfHberu9ywd/3diuge0G8NxIUd3TLsGbW05kfkVc8MX8qJ2xAbm2t6AHKLJbERXPcS5y9OZYr4V3bcyTEty6CUbCiFuACac= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1783496223; c=relaxed/simple; bh=pweQAcNr0xnLFv3uqFNEKNZ27s5eH6MJE1HGrQ/Hrsw=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=NhAg3vYHaeIbioc3Yf+pOd7Tcb62H9bQ8AxQumgWeFme0SnXZuz2C7yfxxuk1AfrIW3gJd6SUvrqHZ051AeWmcXy8aKBY8gRJeu/WSKcMPsNxtCAeqI/7sXOQpxFtjq2ZGf6fzJYQZ6z5fCHdHJDQmmNRtpBQoP5zaeCUVf6t0s= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=linutronix.de; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=linutronix.de; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=linutronix.de header.i=@linutronix.de header.b=W7EQv7Z9; dkim=permerror (0-bit key) header.d=linutronix.de header.i=@linutronix.de header.b=mz2Lh4A4; arc=none smtp.client-ip=193.142.43.55 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=linutronix.de Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=linutronix.de Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=linutronix.de header.i=@linutronix.de header.b="W7EQv7Z9"; dkim=permerror (0-bit key) header.d=linutronix.de header.i=@linutronix.de header.b="mz2Lh4A4" Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2026 09:36:48 +0200 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=linutronix.de; s=2020; t=1783496209; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=Ul1L0cJLxXvRHFuKG/z550OFUnHo10TilMmRHgB3m5E=; b=W7EQv7Z9w3tNqnG1+TCbl9Je2J3H/szDhsxSHcokLBVJOQ+zlTJ3YdOK9o/lUyQlFH+tV1 LRmjw6OmlihPrSZveTDpUppndxXuN71UJUkWdenRyt5nsOpa54CrHkchDWAfKd4OYJIrHA gpHnSTNwLrtC4eWwNXdYfRORSzcQ037zXfWiHJMjoGhQ9WiBPyCIu8avmlN8/YDZ/fguWm B7D55p+AJe+7N52l1NdI1e7oh+lX0UVrC8yYFrPUFnYzMsllzfOG3hmIyM494SUcQ4oape Nia5/oE5QG0Y1gOB+h0mZRmvTm8kpJu3fW4o0qKj7oQCvZZlvO0HY03ynqYQKw== DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=ed25519-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=linutronix.de; s=2020e; t=1783496209; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=Ul1L0cJLxXvRHFuKG/z550OFUnHo10TilMmRHgB3m5E=; b=mz2Lh4A4QK8OPqKVjD58rN5cwO0372jDUbx9+cDoyTyp+AYshLlcDteNU6FVRzzuZEmMiO lzOFbtlEJMe+uUDQ== From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior To: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" , Borislav Petkov , Dave Hansen , Ingo Molnar , Jonathan Corbet , Thomas Gleixner , Arnd Bergmann , Sam James , Neal Gompa , Tomas Glozar , "Maciej W. Rozycki" , Richard Purdie Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] x86: Start removing X86_X32_ABI Message-ID: <20260708073648.c4xJo-8d@linutronix.de> References: <20260707212252.bYk3-AlU@linutronix.de> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: 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