Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Can we drop upstream Linux x32 support? | From | Thomas Schöbel-Theuer <> | Date | Fri, 14 Dec 2018 22:41:20 +0100 |
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On 12/14/18 22:24, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > I should clarify again: I am not suggesting that we drop 32-bit > support in the forseeable future. (Well, I might eventually suggest > that we drop support for 32-bit *hardware* at some point, but not for > 32-bit compat software.) Linux's compat code is quite robust and is > even fairly maintainable. > > I'm talking about x32, which is a different beast. > OK, this does not really make a big difference for large-scale enterprise users. Some day in the very distant future any legacy system will disappear, eventually.
So from my viewpoint the mentioned roadmap / timing requirements will remain the same, whatever you are dropping.
Enterprise-critical use cases will probably need to be migrated to KVM/qemu together with their old kernel versions, anyway (because the original hardware will be no longer available in a few decades).
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