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On 03/11/2014 10:09 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> So 32-bit x86 is dead, dead, dead. There's absolutely no future to it.
> We're not adding new stuff to "future-proof" it.
> 

Quark and its derivatives will probably be 32 bit for some time to come.

Now, I don't know what the motivation was for Stefani to start this work
specifically.  Stefani, would you like to fill us in?

	-hpa