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Linux Kernel Developers Discuss Dropping x32 Support (phoronix.com)
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.
[...] 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.
That's not what x32 is. 32-bit x86 will still be supported.
"x32" is an ABI for x86-64 that uses 32-bit pointers with the x86-64 instruction set for better performance when a large address space is not needed. ;)
It's in the second paragraph in the TFA
"We mustn't be caught by surprise by our own advancing technology" -- Aldous Huxley
It allows access to the extended registers of x86_64 but with 32-bit pointers. It requires an x86_64 processor to be used.
It looks like you missed a verb there. Either that, or Slashdot has finally come across something everyone on Slashdot can agree is "News for Nerds." One nerd attempting to assassinate a group of nerds certainly meets every possible meaning of "News for Nerds."