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On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 11:01:34AM +0300, Pavel Begunkov wrote:

> > I'm not following why that would be considered a valid option,
> > as that clearly breaks existing users that update from a 32-bit
> > kernel to a 64-bit one.
> 
> Do you mean users who move 32-bit binaries (without recompiling) to a
> new x64 kernel? Does the kernel guarantees that to work?

Yes.

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