On 07/11/2018 03:57 PM, Thomas Backlund wrote: > Den 2018-07-11 kl. 20:28, skrev Jiri Kosina: >> On Wed, 11 Jul 2018, Linus Torvalds wrote: >> >>> It's the testing that worries me most. Pretty much no developers run >>> 32-bit any more, and I'd be most worried about the odd interactions >>> that >>> might be hw-specific. Some crazy EFI mapping setup or the similar odd >>> case that simply requires a particular configuration or setup. >>> >>> But I guess those issues will never be found until we just spring this >>> all on the unsuspecting public. >> >> FWIW we shipped Joerg's 32bit KAISER kernel out to our 32bit users >> (on old >> product where we still support it) on Apr 25th already (and some issues >> have been identified since then because of that). So it (or its port to >> 3.0, to be more precise :p) already did receive some crowd-testing. >> > > And Mageia has had v2 since February 13th patched into 4.14 -longterm, > then updated to v3 at March 5th, and updated to v4 at March 19th and > been running that since then (since v5 is rebased on v4.17 we stayed > with v4) > > > So, here is another "lets merge it upstream" vote :) I had a quick boot test for Xen (PV and HVM) and they both looked OK. I didn't boot all the way to login prompt but that's most likely due to issues in my environment -- I haven't tried this image in a year or so and my other setup is offline right now. -boris
