[Pkg-dpdk-devel] dpdk+openvswitch: remove i386 support?

[Christian Ehrhardt]

On Thu, Jul 6, 2023 at 2:48 PM Luca Boccassi <bluca at debian.org> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Ubuntu already removed i386 builds of dpdk (and ovs-dpdk) some time ago
> and the sky hasn't fallen.
>
> Are there any objections if we drop dpdk:i386 in Debian too (and thus
> in ovs-dpdk)?
>
> dpdk is really focused on high performance through CPU-based
> forwarding, and the old i386 baseline is not really a good match, even
> assuming the hardware could support it in the first place. Removing it
> means easing maintenance cost on our side, as there are very often
> compilation errors that are uncaught upstream due to lack of CI
> coverage.

I'm +1 on this, especially because - as you say - upstream can't cover
it well either.
And I do not see us in the position to be the sole responsible for
i386 quality guarantees.

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> Luca Boccassi
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Christian Ehrhardt
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