Re: Drop support for x86-32

[Ronnie Collinson]

On 8/24/12, wbrana <wbrana@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 8/23/12, Brian Gerst <brgerst@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 3:08 PM, wbrana <wbrana@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> On 8/23/12, Brian Gerst <brgerst@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> Nobody here cares about closed source drivers.
>>> There are also open source software which don't support X32 like
>>> Oracle Java, VirtualBox, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome.
>>
>> As I said before, X32 is an optional ABI in 64-bit kernels, for 64-bit
>> userspace code using 32-bit pointers to save memory.  Userspace
>> software doesn't have to support it, it can just go full 64-bit.  Any
>> kernel that supports X32 also supports the full 64-bit ABI.
> I don't understand how your e-mail is related to my e-mail.
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Sort of the problem here, you dont understand what your talking about.
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