Re: Drop support for x86-32

[Alan Cox]

On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 18:36:26 +0200
wbrana <wbrana@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 8/24/12, Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> almost all x86-32 boxes will be trash in 2017, remaining boxes will
> >> use long term tree
> >
> > People will still be manufacturing 32bit x86 processors in 2017 I'm quite
> > sure. You appear entirely out of touch. There are already serious
> > discussions going on about things like the kernel modifications needed to
> > make 32bit systems run past 2038.
> >
> You probably didn't notice: remaining boxes will use long term tree

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.


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