RE: [PATCH v6 2/9] x86/resctrl: Require 64-bit x86 for resctrl support

From: Luck, Tony

Date: Fri Aug 21 2026 - 13:03:14 EST


>> I've for a long time advocated detecting LM during the 32bit boot and
>> simply aborting with a message: "Go run the x86_64 kernel!".
>
> Ack to that. Let's do it and see who complains.

Probably everyone running regression tests of 32-bit kernels on
hardware, rather than in Qemu. Unless they have some 20 year old
Yonah CPUs still running.

-Tony