Hi On 2023-11-15, Stefan Lippers-Hollmann wrote: > On 2023-11-14, Elliott Mitchell wrote: > > Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2023 16:30:49 -0700 > > > > Full amd64 support isn't really appropriate for most situations > > OpenWRT is deployed. Whereas x86-x32 seems extremely appropriate for > > these situations. As such enable x86-x32 support.
[...] > What would be the reason for enabling x32? > There is very little upstream buy-in for x32, when this question came > up for Debian, it was rejected to be enabled for -among other reasons- > concerns about the the system call ABI and its security hardening, as > well as concerns about the long term ABI compatibility (the later of > which probably not that relevant for OpenWrt, the former however is). Just to add some references to this: - Can we drop upstream Linux x32 support? https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/12/10/1145 the whole thread is interesting and doesn't display too much sympathy for x32 - information about the never merged/ defunct x32 port proposed for Debian https://wiki.debian.org/X32Port Regards Stefan Lippers-Hollmann _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
