Re: Can we drop upstream Linux x32 support?

Steven Newbury
2018-12-12T13:26:49Z

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On Wed, 2018-12-12 at 10:48 +0000, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> 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 }
>
Yes, sorry to be unclear. I mean the "IA32 ISA".

> 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.
>
Well, if you have amd64 qemu anyway, why can't you use binfmt_misc with
qemu-user to simulate i386? I'm just saying that makes more sense to
me than dropping x32.
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