On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 06:31:07PM +0000, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > I wonder if x86 32 bit is still useful? > Many distributions no longer support it, and not sure if it is tested > througly by anyone. > > Maybe time to deprecate it (gradually)?
Distributions no longer support it for the kernel, but they certainly still support running 32-bit apps. There's still a lot of code out there that has not been converted to 64-bit, and we need to keep 32-bit DPDK around to support that for some time. Regards, /Bruce
