Hi Linus! On 03/26/2018 03:15 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Secretly, I was hoping to kill x32, because it's not being used afaik. FWIW, we are maintaining an x32 port in Debian and there are some people actually using it [1]. There is one build instance running on VMWare that I am hosting [2] and around 10800 out of 12900 source packages build fine on x32 (12900 being the number for x86_64). The port is mostly stable but the fact that it's a 32-bit target with a 64-bit kernel API often blows up in people's faces because they don't expect things like a 64-bit time_t on a 32-bit system. The port also has some issues with software unaware of the x32 and builds fail when they just test for __x86_64__ but not for __ILP32__, but overall it's usable and stable and has some performance advantages over x86_64. Adrian > [1] http://debian-x32.org/ > [2] https://buildd.debian.org/status/architecture.php?a=x32&suite=sid -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaubitz@xxxxxxxxxx `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaubitz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
