Re: qemu on i686

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On Mon, Feb 27, 2023 at 7:36 PM Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Feb 27, 2023 at 06:28:56PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > I've spent the day fixing various issues in qemu on Rawhide, but
> > there's one remaining issue.  The tests stubbornly fail on i686.  It
> > seems as if there is some issue with TLS (is gnutls borked on i686?)
> >
> >   https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=98075482
> >   [Ignore the transient aarch64 failure ...]
> >
> > Why are we building qemu on i686?
> >
> > Although leaf packages can decide to drop i686 unilaterally, and I am
> > sorely tempted, this is a critical package so I'd like to know if you
> > have a valid use case for qemu, qemu-img etc on i686.
> >
> >   https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/EncourageI686LeafRemoval
> >
> > If we remove qemu it will likely have ripple effects through the rest
> > of the virt stack, which we'll deal with (by excluding i686 on those too).
>
> Furthermore if we drop i686 builds, then I'd suggest we also drop armv7
> builds too. Neither arch provides installable media for Fedora anymore,
> and QEMU doesn't ship any libraries which would be multilib relevant.
> Even if there is a 32-bit library that is exec'ing qemu-img, that should
> be OK with a 64-bit qemu-img binary.

I'm not really sure which armv7hl builds you're talking about here?
Support for armv7hl has been dropped entirely with Fedora 37:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/RetireARMv7

Fabio
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