[Bug 1329188] Review Request: nvml - Non-Volatile Memory Library

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1329188



--- Comment #8 from Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx> ---
(In reply to Krzysztof Czurylo from comment #7)
> 1) I'll remove the scripts modifying /etc/magic from the RPM spec file.
> 
> 2) The optimized routines cannot be just omitted, as they are part of
> libpmem API.  Theoretically, to build it for non-x86_64 we could replace
> them with something that internally calls msync(), or... with empty routines
> (making sure pmem_is_pmem() would always return 0 in such case).  Based on
> the status returned by pmem_is_pmem(), the properly written program should
> switch to use pmem_msync().
> 
> However, I don't see a big value in doing that, as such library won't be
> really useful, except for some testing/experimental purposes.  So, I would
> rather opt for not supporting other architectures, unless someone will
> explicitly request it and provide the arch-specific implementation of the
> low-level routines.
> Seems like this is acceptable:
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures
> 
> The other question is - what to do with 32-bit platforms?  By design, NVML
> cannot be compiled for 32-bit platforms.  Shall we file bugs for those?

Yes, use multiple ExcludeArch lines instead of ExclusiveArch and file bugs for
the primary architectures you don't plan to support:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines?rd=Packaging/Guidelines#Architecture_Support

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