From: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] Retire x86 32 bit?
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2018 21:40:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180417204048.GA108692@bricha3-MOBL.ger.corp.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOaVG152U3TTCHC5h88T0y-SN+=A9Yn55AhOPnueYWg8KF=Svg@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 06:31:07PM +0000, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> I wonder if x86 32 bit is still useful?
> Many distributions no longer support it, and not sure if it is tested
> througly by anyone.
>
> Maybe time to deprecate it (gradually)?
Distributions no longer support it for the kernel, but they certainly still
support running 32-bit apps. There's still a lot of code out there that
has not been converted to 64-bit, and we need to keep 32-bit DPDK around to
support that for some time.
Regards,
/Bruce
prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-04-17 20:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-04-17 18:31 Stephen Hemminger
2018-04-17 18:39 ` David Harton (dharton)
2018-04-17 20:01 ` Jim Murphy
2018-04-17 20:46 ` Stephen Hemminger
2018-04-17 21:18 ` Roger B Melton
2018-04-18 17:40 ` Jim Murphy
2018-04-17 20:40 ` Bruce Richardson [this message]
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