On 12-08-24 12:45 PM, wbrana wrote: > On 8/24/12, Alan Cox <a...@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote: >> That doesn't work for a variety of reasons x86 hardware is still >> changing, devices are still changing. So please exit cloud cuckoo land >> and go do something useful. > Hardware will be discontinued if no software will support it.
Here are a couple of real scenarios you don't seem to have thought about. A 32-bit kernel on a legacy (or even new) system in 2017 will still need regular kernel updates (not "long term" un0maintained kernels) in order to work with new USB devices, new 4KB+ sector hard drives, newer generations of SSDs, etc.. It's (mostly) all about drivers. Cheers -- 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/
