From: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>
To: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>, Neal Gompa <neal@gompa.dev>,
Tomas Glozar <tglozar@kernel.org>,
"Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@orcam.me.uk>,
Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] x86: Start removing X86_X32_ABI
Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2026 14:44:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4a558db42da01e1138bf586635758fe8422da451.camel@physik.fu-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tsq97jt3.fsf@gentoo.org>
On Wed, 2026-07-08 at 13:22 +0100, Sam James wrote:
> > My guess is that it's similar for Gentoo, which doesn't have
> > an x32 installer or kernel package either, though their kernel
> > support times are apparently much shorter than Debian's.
>
> No, there are people who actually use pure x32 without any sort of
> multilib on Gentoo.
>
> Someone even noticed when we broke our live media for it:
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/908599.
>
> Are there masses of these people? No, I don't believe so, and
> I'm not going to strenuously object to its removal, but there are users
> of it.
Jepp, that's how I see it as well. I don't have particularly strong feelings
against the removal. But I think it should be well justified before breaking
something that people use.
Adrian
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-07-08 12:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-07 21:22 Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2026-07-08 5:45 ` Arnd Bergmann
2026-07-08 6:31 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2026-07-08 7:36 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2026-07-08 11:26 ` Arnd Bergmann
2026-07-08 11:51 ` Richard Purdie
2026-07-08 12:22 ` Sam James
2026-07-08 12:44 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz [this message]
2026-07-08 12:33 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2026-07-08 13:16 ` Arnd Bergmann
2026-07-08 16:27 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2026-07-08 20:26 ` David Laight
2026-07-08 23:58 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2026-07-10 20:59 ` H. Peter Anvin
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