> We kernel guys have been asking the distros to ship 64-bit kernels even > in their 32-bit distros for many years, but concerns of compat issues > and the desire to deprecate 32-bit userspace seems to have kept that > from happening.
And now there is another reason: to call 64-bit EFI runtime services. In retrospect, I would have stuck with 32-bit EFI with 64-bit kernels calling runtime services in compatibility mode, but of course it is too late for that now. Yuhong Bao -- 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/
