Luck, Tony wrote: > Cc: list pruned to stop annoying the innocent bystanders ... > >>> I've been thinking of dropping CONFIG_IA32_SUPPORT completely from ia64. >>> I've heard no complaints that new syscalls are not being added to the >>> ia32 compat side ... which is an indication that people are not >>> actively using this. >> Or maybe the people using ia32 compatibility are just running big >> apps like Firefox or Open Office that are non-trivial to build for >> ia64, but may not care as much about shiny new syscalls. > > Firefox has been ported ... it came as a native ia64 binary > rpm on the last OSD install disk that I put on my workstation. > Dunno about Open office though. Native port of Open Office is supposed to be very hard because the UNO bridge code is specific to each architecture. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeff Hanson - jhanson@xxxxxxx - Field Technical Analyst You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice. If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice. You can choose from phantom fears and kindness that can kill; I will choose a path that's clear I will choose freewill. - Lee/Lifeson/Peart - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
![]() |