On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 2:03 PM Alexandre Oliva <oliva@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Aug 19, 2019, kefu chai <tchaikov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > after a second thought, i think, probably, instead of patching SPDK to > > cater the needs of older machines. a better option is to disable SPDK > > when building packages for testing and for our official releases. > > I have no real clue on what role or impact disabling SPDK plays in the > grand scheme of things, so I'm happy to defer to whoever does. I just > wish to keep my home ceph cluster running on those machines until I have > good reason to replace them. Unfortunately that's the last generation > of x86 hardware that can run with a Free Software BIOS, and OpenPower > isn't so much of an option for home use. I hope retaining the ability > to build ceph so that it runs on such old and wise ;-) machines is not a > major problem. not at this moment =) > > Next in my wishlist is to try to fix the issues that I'm told are > getting in the way of ceph's running on 32-bit x86. If anyone is > familiar with them and could give me a brain dump to get me started, > that would certainly be appreciated. I don't really have 32-bit > machines running ceph daemons, but I have often recommended ceph to > people who'd like to run it on SBCs connected to USB storage, so I was > quite surprised and disappointed to find out even x86 wouldn't work any > more. Plus, that messed up my uniform selection of packages on x86 and > x86-64 machines with a single meta-package with all the dependencies I > care for ;-) i'd say it's a little bit off topic. i think we've fixed a bunch of issues[0] related to armhf. and i managed to build ceph in a chroot env for building armhf binaries. so i assume that Ceph does (or did) build on certain 32bit platforms at least. but since we don't test and/or build on 32bit platforms, this could change over the time. if you are able to pinpoint an FTBFS issue or bug while using Ceph on 32 bit platforms. i can take a look at it. --- [0] for instance, https://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/25729 > > -- > Alexandre Oliva, freedom fighter he/him https://FSFLA.org/blogs/lxo > Be the change, be Free! FSF Latin America board member > GNU Toolchain Engineer Free Software Evangelist > Hay que enGNUrecerse, pero sin perder la terGNUra jamás - Che GNUevara -- Regards Kefu Chai
