Re: [PATCH v2] x86: Remove compat vdso support

[Linus Torvalds]

On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 9:50 AM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Looking forward, would it be reasonable to have an extensible set of
> flags that live in the ELF interpreter's headers somewhere

No. Not reasonable. The whole "32-bit x86" and "looking forward"
combination makes absolutely zero sense.

I can pretty much guarantee that even *phones* will be 64-bit if/when
x86 ever gets there. They'll need it just for ARM emulation, I bet.

So 32-bit x86 is dead, dead, dead. There's absolutely no future to it.
We're not adding new stuff to "future-proof" it.

              Linus
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