Re: Drop support for x86-32

[H. Peter Anvin]

Heh... I just read about Android Nexus One phones being used as satellite controllers.

Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> wrote:

>On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 11:17:20AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> 
>> Speaking as one of the x86 maintainers... we are currently deciding
>the
>> cost/benefit tradeoff around removing i386 support.  I don't mean
>> general x86-32 support, I mean i386 as opposed to i486, Pentium, and
>so on.
>
>Random question.  As I recall the Space Shuttle and the International
>Space Station was only using 80386's because they have to be hardened
>against radiation/cosmic rays, as well as all of the other mechnical
>and thermal stresses associated with being in a spacecraft.  Is there
>any newer generation cpu's which are space-cerified at this point?
>
>(Of course, I'm rather doubtful that NASA would ever be willing to use
>Linux on something like the Curiosity Mars Rover, but I could imagine
>Linux being used in a non-mission critcal system on the ISS....)
>
>      	      		    	    	      - Ted

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