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Linux Kernel Developers Discuss Dropping x32 Support (phoronix.com)

Posted by msmash on from the direction-of-the-wind dept.

An anonymous reader shared a report: It was just several years ago that the open-source ecosystem began supporting the x32 ABI, but already kernel developers are talking of potentially deprecating the support and for it to be ultimately removed..

[...] While the x32 support was plumbed through the Linux landscape, it really hasn't been used much. Kernel developers are now discussing the future of the x32 ABI due to the maintenance cost involved in still supporting this code but with minimal users. Linus Torvalds is in favor of sunsetting x32 and many other upstream contributors in favor of seeing it deprecated and removed.

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  1. Clickbait perhaps but the truth of it, imo? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    See subject: They're to "further someone's agenda" ala "Climate Change" bs (which I think is natural/cyclical & mankind can't DO that much vs. it - no, doesn't HURT to try & be more efficient + "good to nature" though) - for example, take Al Gore (conman imo): He talks "save energy" but has some compound or home that BURNS like 1/2 the energy consumption where it's located (statewide) from what I've heard...

    * What a HYPOCRITE conman - preaching "do as I say, NOT as I do"...

    APK

    P.S.=> The SCUM takes what's BEST in your as a human being civilized dutiful person & USE IT AGAINST YOU for their own greed/ends/profit (like "for the children" OR organized religion (yes, I believe in an almighty creative spirit & I think it loves us but I DO NOT BELIEVE IN MEN CREATED "GOD" TO MANIPULATE US) - which I gave up on - they use it to STIR THE MASSES to wars etc. like CHUMPS - the "opiate of the masses" alright - "thou shalt not kill" but the "CONTROLLERS" do THAT, everyday)... apk