Re: [GTALUG] life expectancy of 32-bit x86 [was Re: Fedora Netinstall] [long]

2018-02-15 Thread Anthony de Boer via talk
D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > ... > So: I don't expect that we're going to see many programs that will > stop supporting 32-bit. A greater risk is that 32-bit ports will > become less tested. That may reduce reliability. > > Some distros are surely going to drop 32-bit soon. I would

Re: [GTALUG] life expectancy of 32-bit x86 [was Re: Fedora Netinstall] [long]

2018-02-15 Thread Lennart Sorensen via talk
On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 08:56:54PM -0500, Jamon Camisso via talk wrote: > I think you can buy Cavium ThunderX systems if you get in touch with the > distributor in Canada. We have some of their systems in the US for arm64 > build farm purposes. I think now you can, but even a year or two ago,

Re: [GTALUG] life expectancy of 32-bit x86 [was Re: Fedora Netinstall] [long]

2018-02-14 Thread Jamon Camisso via talk
On 2018-02-14 11:06 AM, Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote: > If it was actually possible to buy arm servers I think at least some > people would have (I know I would have in the past), but none of the > systems announced could actually be bought unless you were google or > facebook or something like

Re: [GTALUG] life expectancy of 32-bit x86 [was Re: Fedora Netinstall] [long]

2018-02-13 Thread Stewart C. Russell via talk
On 2018-02-11 01:06 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > > - irrelevant aside: many 64-bit ARM SOCs don't support more than 2G or > 3G of RAM. This seems crazy to me since the first use-case of > 64-bit is to support wider pointers. Most ARMs are just application processors. If you're