Re: F37 Change: RetireARMv7 (System-Wide Change proposal)

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On Thu, Nov 25, 2021 at 04:04:25PM +0000, Peter Robinson wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 25, 2021 at 11:11 AM Florian Weimer <fweimer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > * Peter Robinson:
> >
> > > On Thu, Nov 25, 2021 at 10:43 AM Florian Weimer <fweimer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> * Ben Cotton:
> > >>
> > >> > == Detailed Description ==
> > >> >
> > >> > The ARMv7 arm architecture was the second variant of the arm
> > >> > architecture that Fedora has supported, the first was ARMv5, the third
> > >> > is aarch64. The proposal is to retire ARMv7 as part of the Fedora 37
> > >> > release. This will allow ARMv7/armhfp to be supported until the Fedora
> > >> > 36 end of life in around June 2023.
> > >>
> > >> Can we do this immediately (for Fedora 36) instead?
> > >>
> > >> The LPAE kernel issues won't go away.  Upstream has little interest in
> > >> them.  And we recently lost Systemtap probes on Arm, with no clear path
> > >> towards restoring them.
> > >
> > > No, it took me 3 months to work this out with Arm and Arm partners.
> >
> > Do they have a solution for our LPAE kernel problem?
> 
> They have already been contributing to that.
> 
> On the systemtap issue... where's the bug report? Was it linked to the
> ARMTracker bug or posted to the arm mailing list? Your mention of the
> systemtap probes issue is the first time I've heard of this.

As Richard Jones mentiones, I presume this is the problem we've hit
in building QEMU with systemtap which makes GCC go boom.  I've now
filed a bug against systemtap in FEdora for tracking this

  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2026858


Regards,
Daniel
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