> Today, there's good chance there's linux somewhere in your car. (Dashboard, > entertainment system). People like to keep cars from 1910 working, and I > suspect > that is not going to change. > > So yes, in 2038 people will be running 32bit linux. > > Whether there will be people putting 32bit linux into new devices is a > question, > but I suspect answer is still yes.
I'm currently trying to add 64bit longlong support to an initial PCC 8086 compiler port so I can fix that for some 16bit projects 8-) My 8bit machines are mostly 2038 safe already. Alan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
