> On Feb 11, 2018, at 2:12 PM, James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On Sun, 2018-02-11 at 11:42 -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote: >> >>> On Feb 11, 2018, at 9:40 AM, Mark D Rustad <mrustad@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>> >>>> >>>> On Feb 11, 2018, at 2:59 AM, Adam Borowski <kilobyte@xxxxxxxxxx> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> Does Debian make it easy to upgrade to a 64-bit kernel if you >>>>> have a >>>>> 32-bit install? >>>> >>>> Quite easy, yeah. Crossgrading userspace is not for the faint of >>>> the heart, >>>> but changing just the kernel is fine. >>> >>> ISTR that iscsi doesn't work when running a 64-bit kernel with a >>> 32-bit userspace. I remember someone offered kernel patches to fix >>> it, but I think they were rejected. I haven't messed with that >>> stuff in many years, so perhaps the userspace side now has >>> accommodation for it. It might be something to check on. >>> >> >> At the risk of suggesting heresy, should we consider removing x86_32 >> support at some point? > > Hey, my cloud server is 32 bit: > > bedivere:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo > processor : 0 > vendor_id : GenuineIntel > cpu family : 15 > model : 2 > model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz > stepping : 9 > microcode : 0x2e > cpu MHz : 2813.464 > [...] > > I suspect a lot of people are in the same position: grandfathered in on > an old hosting plan, but not really willing to switch to a new 64 bit > box because the monthly cost about doubles and nothing it does is > currently anywhere up to (let alone over) the capacity of the single > 686 processor. > > The thing which is making me consider it is actually getting a TPM to > protect the private keys, but doubling the monthly cost is still a huge > disincentive. Where are they hosting this? Last I checked, replacing a P4 and motherboard with something new paid for itself in about a year in power savings. > > James > -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href
