Re: Can we drop upstream Linux x32 support?

Thorsten Glaser
2018-12-12T10:55:43Z

Steven Newbury dixit:

>I can't help but wonder if it wouldn't make more sense to drop x86
>support from long mode than x32. AMD64 x86 support was always intended

Do you mean i386?

x86 = { i386, x32, amd64 }

No, please don’t. I use i386 as “companion architecture” to x32,
only the kernel and actually memory-hungry things (qemu) are
amd64 binaries on my system, and this works very well.

Thanks,
//mirabilos
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