linux-kernel - Re: Can we drop upstream Linux x32 support?

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Message-ID: <873573ba-4d15-07c8-3fcf-ccf36eee14f1@physik.fu-berlin.de>
Date:   Tue, 11 Dec 2018 11:44:32 +0100
From:   John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@...sik.fu-berlin.de>
To:     Florian Weimer <fweimer@...hat.com>
Cc:     Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>, X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux API <linux-api@...r.kernel.org>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Mike Frysinger <vapier@...too.org>,
        "H. J. Lu" <hjl.tools@...il.com>, Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>,
        x32@...ldd.debian.org, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: Can we drop upstream Linux x32 support?

On 12/11/18 11:37 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> Note that OpenJDK (well, Hotspot) has its own 32-bit pointer support for
> the Java heap (compressed oops), so only the native code parts (and JNI)
> benefit from x32 anyway.

Yeah, I was actually only talking about this single commit by me to add
Zero build support for x86_64-linux-gnux32:

> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk/jdk/rev/9ce4a0d718c7

Adrian

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