11–13 Dec 2025
Asia/Tokyo timezone

Highmem deprecation planning

Not scheduled
20m
Kernel Summit Track Kernel Summit Track

Speaker

Arnd Bergmann (Linaro)

Description

Following up on an ELC presentation about the future of 32-bit Linux, this is a discussion session specifically about highmem, which is a feature needed for a small number of 32-bit machines that regularly gets kernel developers upset.

The goal of this session is to find consensus on whether we can resonably drop support for highmem in the next few years, what the best time for that would be, and what work has to get completed first in order to minimize the impact to current users.

https://lore.kernel.org/ksummit/4ff89b72-03ff-4447-9d21-dd6a5fe1550f@app.fastmail.com/t/#u

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