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Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 11:50:16 +0200 From: wbrana <wbrana@...il.com> To: Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com> Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: Drop support for x86-32 On 8/23/12, Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 3:08 PM, wbrana <wbrana@...il.com> wrote: >> On 8/23/12, Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com> wrote: >>> Nobody here cares about closed source drivers. >> There are also open source software which don't support X32 like >> Oracle Java, VirtualBox, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome. > > As I said before, X32 is an optional ABI in 64-bit kernels, for 64-bit > userspace code using 32-bit pointers to save memory. Userspace > software doesn't have to support it, it can just go full 64-bit. Any > kernel that supports X32 also supports the full 64-bit ABI. I don't understand how your e-mail is related to my e-mail. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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