From: One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>,
"Joseph S. Myers" <joseph@codesourcery.com>
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] (Resend) 2038 Kernel Summit Discussion Fodder
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2014 18:55:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140908185544.621022b6@alan.etchedpixels.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140823222640.GA1382@xo-6d-61-c0.localdomain>
> Today, there's good chance there's linux somewhere in your car. (Dashboard,
> entertainment system). People like to keep cars from 1910 working, and I suspect
> that is not going to change.
>
> So yes, in 2038 people will be running 32bit linux.
>
> Whether there will be people putting 32bit linux into new devices is a question,
> but I suspect answer is still yes.
I'm currently trying to add 64bit longlong support to an initial PCC 8086
compiler port so I can fix that for some 16bit projects 8-)
My 8bit machines are mostly 2038 safe already.
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-08 18:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-13 0:08 John Stultz
2014-08-13 1:33 ` josh
2014-08-13 1:37 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-08-13 9:18 ` Catalin Marinas
2014-08-13 3:45 ` John Stultz
2014-08-13 20:27 ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-08-13 21:35 ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-08-27 18:34 ` John Stultz
2014-08-23 22:26 ` Pavel Machek
2014-09-08 17:55 ` One Thousand Gnomes [this message]
2014-09-08 18:07 ` H. Peter Anvin
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