From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mga18.intel.com (mga18.intel.com [134.134.136.126]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11AB4AAF1 for ; Tue, 17 Apr 2018 22:40:52 +0200 (CEST) X-Amp-Result: UNSCANNABLE X-Amp-File-Uploaded: False Received: from orsmga004.jf.intel.com ([10.7.209.38]) by orsmga106.jf.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 17 Apr 2018 13:40:51 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.48,464,1517904000"; d="scan'208";a="192266893" Received: from bricha3-mobl.ger.corp.intel.com ([10.252.19.139]) by orsmga004.jf.intel.com with SMTP; 17 Apr 2018 13:40:49 -0700 Received: by (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Tue, 17 Apr 2018 21:40:49 +0100 Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2018 21:40:48 +0100 From: Bruce Richardson To: Stephen Hemminger Cc: dev@dpdk.org Message-ID: <20180417204048.GA108692@bricha3-MOBL.ger.corp.intel.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Organization: Intel Research and Development Ireland Ltd. User-Agent: Mutt/1.9.4 (2018-02-28) Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] Retire x86 32 bit? X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2018 20:40:53 -0000 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