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> If a group of users of 32 bit hardware care to volunteer to support the latest kernel features, then there's no problem.

It's not just the case that you need people to support 32bit/nommu; you also have to account for the impact on other kernel devs working on features that are made harder.

This is called out in the article around keeping highmem support.



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