Re: drop i386 support

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On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 8:58 AM, Sage Weil <sage@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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...

We also don't build i386 releases anymore (at least for a couple of years now)


>
> sage
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