On Tue, 2014-08-12 at 17:01 -0700, John Stultz wrote: [...] > The downsides here are many. The distros will probably hate this idea,
I certainly hate the idea of adding another 32-bit port to Debian. I think that it's OK for traditional distros to say 'just upgrade to 64bit' while you solve the problem for 32-bit embedded systems where there's probably little demand for supporting multiple ABIs at once. > as it requires rebuilding the world, and maintaining another legacy > architecture support. I’m also not completely sure how robust > multi-arch packaging is in the face of having to handle 3-4 > architectures on one system. dpkg multiarch covers this just fine, while I believe RPM is limited to biarch. > On the kernel side, it also adds more complexity, where we have to add > even more complex compat support for 64bit systems to handle all the > various 32bit applications possible. [...] Didn't we need to do this already to support x32? Have compat ioctls involving time been botched? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Humans are not rational beings; they are rationalising beings.
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