Note: please keep me in Cc because I am not subscribed. Linus Torvalds dixit: >I'm not opposed to trying to sunset the support, but let's see who complains.. I will hereby complain. I’m using Debian/x32 on my main desktop at work, and do occasionally help out with porting issues. It’s a good way to make more out of 64-bit machines without going all 64 bit; it’s also helped me find bugs in software. It’s a nice architectural idea, and a way forward for things that are constricted to 32 bits while opening up stuff like 64-bit time_t without taking up half the available CPU registers (while more than doubling the number of the available CPU registers, too). I was also considering investing a nontrivial amount of work into porting klibc to x32, since hpa does not wish to do it himself. Thankfully I have only done a bit yet. Furthermore, x32 was the first of the many *64ilp32 architectures; I know I’ve seen amd64ilp32 and at least one other I don’t recall. It will have prototyped many of the problems users of these will run in, and I’d prefer to keep it (completely selfish because I don’t wish to have to crossgrade a whole system yet again). Thanks for your consideration, //mirabilos -- When he found out that the m68k port was in a pretty bad shape, he did not, like many before him, shrug and move on; instead, he took it upon himself to start compiling things, just so he could compile his shell. How's that for dedication. -- Wouter, about my Debian/m68k revival
