Re: [PATCH 04/15] x86/kbuild: Introduce the 'x86_32' subarchitecture

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Fri May 09 2025 - 14:01:31 EST


On May 9, 2025 5:04:38 AM PDT, David Laight <david.laight.linux@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>On Wed, 7 May 2025 08:35:05 +0200
>Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>...
>> Let's just have x86_32 as the internal primary subarchitecture name,
>> with support for historic aliases like 'i386'. That it cleans up things
>> for defconfig naming is a bonus.
>
>Aren't there 3 variants?
>Although the 3rd x32? running ILP32 in 'long mode' isn't used much
>(if at all?)
>
> David

x32 is user space only.