On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 10:24:54PM +0200, Reindl Harald wrote:
repeating something that was already mentioned on this thread, but you can still run a 32b userspace on a 64b kernel.
We'd need someone interested in making a Fedora spin for that, though
i686 userspace would be wasted nonsense https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X32_ABI
Please tone down "nonsense" for things other people are interested in.
I think the X32 abi idea is great, but I haven't heard much about it since, like, 2012. I'm afraid it'd end up being an obscure thing that even fewer people are interested in debugging and working on than i686.
The official site is https://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/, and the most recent news is GCC 4.8 and Ubuntu 13.04.