On Thursday 23 August 2012 19:22:07 wbrana wrote: > x86-32 > - is deprecated since Linux supports X32. > - will slow down adoption of X32 - there won't be X32 versions of many > software - if new ABI was added, old one should be removed > - wastes time of developers who can spend their time supporting X32 > instead of x86-32 or support x86-64 only as 99% of users will be able > to run x86-64 software if x86-32 will be dropped > - wouldn't be dropped this year, but there should be plan when it will > be dropped e.g. when Windows 9 will be released > > On 8/23/12, Martin Nybo Andersen <tw...@tweek.dk> wrote: > > Why?
Please stop trolling (and top-posting). Linux is NOT Windows where people must throw out their hardware because it stopped working in new version. There are millions of 32-bit x86 machines all around the world. If new Windows will not run on them, Linux will. -- Ondrej Zary -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
