A Gentoo x32 release candidate

Posted Jun 7, 2012 20:08 UTC (Thu) by slashdot (guest, #22014)
In reply to: A Gentoo x32 release candidate by teknohog
Parent article: A Gentoo x32 release candidate

x32 is just a faster version of x86, and so doesn't add much complexity.

32-bit-only x86 CPUs have already been very rare for a while, so x86 on Linux will hopefully die soon after x32 is released, resulting in a x32+x64 world instead of x86+x64, now with a single kernel architecture.

x86 userland will probably survive forever on Windows though, unless Microsoft decides to introduce x32 as well.

A Gentoo x32 release candidate

Posted Jun 11, 2012 13:10 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] (4 responses)

32-bit-only x86 CPUs have already been very rare for a while

Uh, Atom?

A Gentoo x32 release candidate

Posted Jun 11, 2012 14:42 UTC (Mon) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link] (3 responses)

New Atoms support x86_64.

A Gentoo x32 release candidate

Posted Jun 11, 2012 22:01 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] (1 responses)

Excellent! Maybe we *can* get rid of x86 then. I was resigned to its being immortal...

A Gentoo x32 release candidate

Posted Jun 11, 2012 22:05 UTC (Mon) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]

Well, there's NaCl remaining which uses x86 code.

Besides, amd64 is not much better than x86.

A Gentoo x32 release candidate

Posted Jun 12, 2012 22:45 UTC (Tue) by BenHutchings (subscriber, #37955) [Link]

The desktop Atom models are all 64-bit capable now, but there are still mobile and embedded models available that use older 32-bit cores.