On 26/03/14 02:56 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Hello all, > > it won't be too long until 3.14 is out and I want to address a topic > that has been bugging me for a while. Our kernel includes everything and > the kitchensink. I have no problem with delivering drivers that can be > built modular, but there are other things that have an unknown impact on > everyone. > > I want to trim our kernel down to what we actually support. I think we should drop x32 support if no one is planning on packaging the minimum of a compiler and standard C library. It's cool, but no one appears to be very interested in using it in the real world. You would probably get bigger wins from recompiling with -march=native, so I somewhat doubt that anyone grasping for the last bit of performance will use our binaries anyway. This was already responsible for a security vulnerability in Arch: http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/187
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