On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 10:37:31AM +0100, Sven Hartrumpf wrote:
> Will the proposed patch ("only") remove the possibility to build x32 kernels
> or will it make impossible to compile and run any x32 binaries?There's no such thing as x32 kernels. It's an ABI atop amd64 kernels; the kernel is always 64-bit -- short pointers apply only to userspace and syscalls. It could be interesting to block regular amd64 syscalls and leave x32 only -- for "security through rarity", but the kernel itself would still look the same. Meow! -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Ivan was a worldly man: born in St. Petersburg, raised in ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ Petrograd, lived most of his life in Leningrad, then returned ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ to the city of his birth to die.
