On Thursday 23 August 2012 19:22:07 wbrana wrote: > x86-32 > - is deprecated since Linux supports X32. > - will slow down adoption of X32 - there won't be X32 versions of many > software - if new ABI was added, old one should be removed > - wastes time of developers who can spend their time supporting X32 > instead of x86-32 or support x86-64 only as 99% of users will be able > to run x86-64 software if x86-32 will be dropped > - wouldn't be dropped this year, but there should be plan when it will > be dropped e.g. when Windows 9 will be released > > On 8/23/12, Martin Nybo Andersen <tw...@tweek.dk> wrote: > > Why?
I see that you chose to ignore the rest of my mail, which got lost on the way to the lkml apparently because it was infected with some HTML: ---- Windows 9 will have no support for Aplha, m68k, risc, PowerPC, SPARC, ESA/390 to name a few. They could be dropped as well, but why? ---- You could call these architectures deprecated as well. However I like the fact that Linux doesn't try to force the users into using some specific hardware (or software for that matter), as some companies tend to do. BTW: This mail is written on an asus eeepc (32-bit intel thing), and my first hands-on experience with Linux was on an amiga 1200 (mc68030). Naturally, I love the versatility of Linux and see no reason for dropping support for old hardware unless, it is _really_ not used anymore (token ring comes to mind). -- Cheers, Martin -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
