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 647FF86341; Thu, 13 Aug 2026 12:11:16 +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=1786623077; cv=none; b=pot3Uf2zXCDJdA8TLocwhIwB3pUkd1oM4bIMJmDKfMwXHMSjGyGguXAMBV1PnkjAi68vO5VM4O+dSBEme+UoP8jvbyU0+4ls4klpgbsrwW6XX4zK/rkHvfQegkxAk4pZ9pNQBozWJDhKs882o6LnIfEMj53Nu5mYWuZy6wBRhJI= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1786623077; c=relaxed/simple; bh=lXxpFSnZmASJRjwbjsEJTBnbghIwLwxVPaIdHIYb1xE=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=BD1k68EPA8f6yHr3EqL7BYVdApgk+pT5M/qNU7tojxjNwtD617w4kOctjrR9X+EunCXCxyBh/7LqUc71PYaXud+BUZ9Ya0JQsjWVvotICO+Iv7BCmjefmCcN/R6QadjqeZWsRTodclSjDFLuxK05k2YcYqwhy6o4lZ304QtLGpk= 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=UPo4Rq0R; dkim=permerror (0-bit key) header.d=linutronix.de header.i=@linutronix.de header.b=nfaXytQl; 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="UPo4Rq0R"; dkim=permerror (0-bit key) header.d=linutronix.de header.i=@linutronix.de header.b="nfaXytQl" Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2026 14:11:11 +0200 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=linutronix.de; s=2020; t=1786623072; 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=ihCrHucstlLDg7/AzfLnbUBHWpfK/QHsps/L4LDwPeA=; b=UPo4Rq0RJyqbM0+df5CmElqlKDHdIOfXQiKAG2Hp5DVjJNMqigwVrABI/05kmyA0h9cb3T pvAf4l0oaJM2sCR7Q4oGp2RJulHLh5OFALZl+DYo65NsPukNmV8xpQ2nmXEHRNdf9LyXbX 3ql/DZW23sA4BTOjWtgMZBdOznD6V+rGpJGfu+TKMq4SPxPYr//QVNGgUNY+pTtdF6X+kd O1PP1bkrty9HjTC3rlt5zdZX2VQpL9oR5xemzF2w6O/t06b9XXDeMbN0MsegeVQBdLBOKZ c8IKGy1MVX4cOCGWBSInoix1ZLU/FphW30puvpiHE1q5xLVUPsXFdpaot6AJxw== DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=ed25519-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=linutronix.de; s=2020e; t=1786623072; 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=ihCrHucstlLDg7/AzfLnbUBHWpfK/QHsps/L4LDwPeA=; b=nfaXytQlPrLrUm4p2qRVteMChpof7kfkUAd0Wa5ygTrJySHzj5WpHlqcIjnitJnRHGG/en 5PDczCc2U/gLbfBQ== From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior To: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" , "Maciej W. Rozycki" , Bill Wendling , Borislav Petkov , Dave Hansen , Ingo Molnar , Jonathan Corbet , Justin Stitt , Nathan Chancellor , Neal Gompa , Nick Desaulniers , Richard Purdie , Sam James , Shuah Khan , Thomas Gleixner , Thomas =?utf-8?Q?Wei=C3=9Fschuh?= , Tomas Glozar , Willy Tarreau , x86@kernel.org, Arnd Bergmann Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] x86: Start removing X86_X32_ABI Message-ID: <20260813121111.bVf9xHsk@linutronix.de> References: <20260813-x32_removal-v3-0-e8f96cd15478@linutronix.de> <20260813-x32_removal-v3-2-e8f96cd15478@linutronix.de> <53d827d6481818bf0ba1fbf0b29aa5e750243b7b.camel@physik.fu-berlin.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: <53d827d6481818bf0ba1fbf0b29aa5e750243b7b.camel@physik.fu-berlin.de> On 2026-08-13 13:07:53 [+0200], John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hi Sebastian, Hi Adrian, > On Thu, 2026-08-13 at 13:04 +0200, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: > > 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. > > Wouldn't that mean that x32 won't be usable in the upcoming LTS kernel > then? Why not do it the same way it was done for ia64, wait for the next > LTS release, then remove it. The idea is to revert the (two) commit(s). > Anyone still wishing to use it could just install that particular LTS > kernel. > > Adrian Sebastian