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. 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 ;-) -- 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 _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list -- dev@xxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to dev-leave@xxxxxxx
