Re: Drop support for x86-32

[Mark Lord]

On 12-08-24 12:45 PM, wbrana wrote:
> On 8/24/12, Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> That doesn't work for a variety of reasons x86 hardware is still
>> changing, devices are still changing. So please exit cloud cuckoo land
>> and go do something useful.
> Hardware will be discontinued if no software will support it.

Here are a couple of real scenarios you don't seem to have thought about.
A 32-bit kernel on a legacy (or even new) system in 2017 will still need
regular kernel updates (not "long term" un0maintained kernels)
in order to work with new USB devices, new 4KB+ sector hard drives,
newer generations of SSDs, etc..

It's (mostly) all about drivers.

Cheers
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