Re: drop i386 support

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On Mon, 11 Jul 2016, Wido den Hollander wrote:
> > Op 11 juli 2016 om 9:32 schreef Piotr Dałek <branch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 02:57:12PM +0800, kefu chai wrote:
> > > Hi Cephers,
> > > 
> > > I am proposing drop the support of i386. as we don't compile Ceph with
> > > any i386 gitbuilder now[1] and hence don't test the i386 builds on
> > > sepia on a regular basis. Also, based on the assumption that people
> > > don't use i386 in production, I think we can drop it from the minimum
> > > hardware document[2]?
> > > 
> > > And we won't explicitly disable the i386 build in code if we decide to
> > > drop the i386 support, as we always try to be portable if possible.
> > > But just don't claim the i386 as the officially supported arch
> > > anymore.
> > > 
> > > What do you think?
> > 
> > +1 from my side. Regular users are on amd64, and those willing to run on
> > small devices are using ARM anyway.
> > 
> 
> Indeed. In my experience I have never seen a cluster run on i386.
> 
> +1 from my side to drop i386.

Yep.

The only value is the i386 builder, which serves as a canary for 32-bit 
build issues, and is a more convenient that building on 32-bit arm 
hardware.  So +.5 from me to keeping the builder around...

sage

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