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

[Luca Boccassi]

On Thu, 13 Jul 2023 at 13:40, Christian Ehrhardt
<christian.ehrhardt at canonical.com> wrote:
>
> 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

Ping - any news on dropping i386 from OVS, at least for the dpdk
builds? We are working on the next DPDK major release, and as always
there are wrinkles that only appear on i386, and on our side we'd be
glad to just disable it.