On Fri, Dec 14, 2018 at 1:22 PM Thomas Schöbel-Theuer <thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 12/11/18 02:23, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > > I'm seriously considering sending a patch to remove x32 support from > > upstream Linux. > > I am downstream maintainer of several self-patched kernels at 1&1 Ionos. > The kernels are rolled out to several tenthousands of production servers > running in several datacenters and in multiple continents. > > Currently, we have a few thousands of servers relying on 32bit ABIs in > some thousands of VMs and/or containers of various types (LXC, OpenVZ, etc). I should clarify again: I am not suggesting that we drop 32-bit support in the forseeable future. (Well, I might eventually suggest that we drop support for 32-bit *hardware* at some point, but not for 32-bit compat software.) Linux's compat code is quite robust and is even fairly maintainable. I'm talking about x32, which is a different beast.
