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

[Christian Ehrhardt]

On Thu, Jul 6, 2023 at 4:25 PM Thomas Goirand <zigo at debian.org> wrote:
>
> On 7/6/23 14:48, Luca Boccassi 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)?
>
> Well, if we remove support for dpdk on i386 (which I don't really
> mind...), I think it'd be fine to completely remove 32 bits support on
> OVS also, just like I did on OVN. Especially, I'll be happy when we
> don't need to cover very slow arch like mips...
>
> Your thoughts?

Yes all these SW stacks are meant for speed and scale - not matching
those platforms well.
IMHO (really just me as a person) we could consider dropping
armhf/i386 from all of them.

Frode also carried your thoughts forward to Ubuntu-devel [1]

[1]: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2023-July/042673.html

> Cheers,
>
> Thomas Goirand (zigo)
>
>
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