[arch-dev-public] linux-3.4.0-1 enters [testing]
Hi guys, Upstream changes: http://kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges The x86_32 switch is not yet enabled. Please report any issues that arise. Thanks. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa@archlinux.org
On 05/21/2012 04:21 PM, Tobias Powalowski wrote:
Hi guys,
Upstream changes: http://kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges
The x86_32 switch is not yet enabled.
No yet? IMO we don't need this option unless we want to start providing an x86_32 port.
Please report any issues that arise. Thanks.
greetings tpowa
-- Ionuț
Am 21.05.2012 16:38, schrieb Ionut Biru:
On 05/21/2012 04:21 PM, Tobias Powalowski wrote:
Hi guys,
Upstream changes: http://kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges
The x86_32 switch is not yet enabled.
No yet? IMO we don't need this option unless we want to start providing an x86_32 port.
I can almost guarantee that there will be a feature request for it soon, for whatever reason. Provided that it probably only uses a few KB in the kernel, it won't hurt us. I see the following use case: Someone will want to do some computations where the overhead and memory footprint of x86_64 is a problem. It would then be possible to build an x32 glibc, similar to our multilib approach, and then compile their applications against it.
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Ionut Biru
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Thomas Bächler
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Tobias Powalowski