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

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Message-ID: <20120824202544.GA23427@liondog.tnic>
Date:	Fri, 24 Aug 2012 22:25:44 +0200
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
Cc:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>, Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com>,
	wbrana <wbrana@...il.com>, Martin Nybo Andersen <tweek@...ek.dk>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Drop support for x86-32

On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 04:06:42PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 03:58:56PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> 
>  > BTW, it turns out I was wrong about Linux being used on Mars.
>  > Apparently Linux was used on the Mars Global Surveyor, as well as the
>  > Sprit and Opportunity rovers
> 
> citation? My recollection was that they were running VxWorks.

... on a "a radiation-hardened version of the IBM PowerPC 750." So no
x86.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2408127,00.asp

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.
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