linux-kernel - Re: Drop support for x86-32

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Message-ID: <1345823281.28613.34.camel@thorin>
Date:	Fri, 24 Aug 2012 17:48:00 +0200
From:	Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@...rovitsch.priv.at>
To:	wbrana <wbrana@...il.com>
Cc:	Ondrej Zary <linux@...nbow-software.org>,
	Martin Nybo Andersen <tweek@...ek.dk>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Drop support for x86-32

On Fre, 2012-08-24 at 14:59 +0200, wbrana wrote:
> On 8/24/12, Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@...rovitsch.priv.at> wrote:
[...]
> > And you obviously never thought about embedded devices.
> > Servers, laptops, notebooks and desktop computers are not the whole
> > computing world - and from the pure numbers not even the majority BTW.
> I don't request dropping support for ARM and other platforms which are
> still in production

You really think that there are no 32bit x86-compatible CPUs in the
embedded world?

	Bernd
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Bernd Petrovitsch                  Email : bernd@...rovitsch.priv.at
                     LUGA : http://www.luga.at

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