Re: Drop support for x86-32

[Chris Friesen]

On 08/24/2012 11:05 AM, wbrana wrote:
> On 8/24/12, Martin Nybo Andersen<tweek@xxxxxxxx>  wrote:
> > What I'd hate even more is rendering my old working hardware useless by
> > removing x86-32 support from the kernel. To reason the removal by saying
> > "Microsoft plans to do it" just makes me go bonkers...

> Your old hardware will work fine with long term kernel.

Give it up.  x86-32 support isn't going away for a long time.

The kernel exists to support existing hardware, not the other way 
around.  As long as people want to keep using x86-32 on linux, it will 
continue to be supported.

Chris
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