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Subject: Re: Can we drop upstream Linux x32 support?
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Steven Newbury dixit:

>I can't help but wonder if it wouldn't make more sense to drop x86
>support from long mode than x32.  AMD64 x86 support was always intended

Do you mean i386?

x86 = { i386, x32, amd64 }

No, please don’t. I use i386 as “companion architecture” to x32,
only the kernel and actually memory-hungry things (qemu) are
amd64 binaries on my system, and this works very well.

Thanks,
//mirabilos
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18:47⎜<mirabilos:#!/bin/mksh> well channels… you see, I see everything in the
same window anyway      18:48⎜<xpt:#!/bin/mksh> i know, you have some kind of
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