Luck, Tony wrote: > Cc: list pruned to stop annoying the innocent bystanders ... > >>> I've been thinking of dropping CONFIG_IA32_SUPPORT completely from ia64. >>> I've heard no complaints that new syscalls are not being added to the >>> ia32 compat side ... which is an indication that people are not >>> actively using this. >> Or maybe the people using ia32 compatibility are just running big >> apps like Firefox or Open Office that are non-trivial to build for >> ia64, but may not care as much about shiny new syscalls. > > Firefox has been ported ... it came as a native ia64 binary > rpm on the last OSD install disk that I put on my workstation. > Dunno about Open office though.
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