Re: [PATCH] x86 NUMA panic compile error

[H. Peter Anvin]

Dave Jones wrote:
> On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 04:06:18PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>  > Followup to:  <200605152111.20693.ak@xxxxxxx>
>  > By author:    Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx>
>  > In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>  > > 
>  > > > x86 is a legacy architecture now anyway, right? ;)
>  > > I wish everybody would agree on that @)
>  > > 
>  > 
>  > It's going to live on for a very long time, though.  Intel is still
>  > shipping some very fast 64-bit-deficient silicon.  Once that's gone,
>  > it's going to live on for decades in the embedded world.
>
> There's also a surprising number of people still running
> their shiny new x86-64's in 32 bit mode.  (I suspect because
> they're reliant upon applications that aren't 64-bit clean
> that for whatever reason don't run in 32-bit emulation).
>
> I'd be surprised if any of the major distros stopped shipping
> a 32-bit x86 release for several years.

Yup.  In fact, I wish Fedora had the 32-bit Firefox, at least as an option.  I keep having 
to add the 32-bit repos for that reason alone :(

	-hpa
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