Last of my 32bit mobos died the other week, so no problem for me if you
drop drop support for x86 32bit


On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 4:29 PM, Fabio Erculiani <[email protected]> wrote:

> So, x86_64 is more than 10 years old now, and it's time to think again
> about the i686 architecture.
> I am proposing to gradually drop support for x86 32bit by the end of
> 2013 (the "how" would deserve a separate discussion).
> Is there any serious reason not to kill 32bit? Maintaining it takes
> 50% of our resources (time and space) and we could just dedicate some
> of them to the other emerging architecture called ARM.
>
> This is just an RFC for now, don't get scared.
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Fabio Erculiani
>
>


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