Hi! seg 29 jul 2024 às 14:33:59 (1722274439), rek...@elephly.net enviou: > Efraim Flashner <efr...@flashner.co.il> writes: > > > On Fri, Jul 26, 2024 at 02:51:49PM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote: > >> For a long time we've not been able to build linux-libre on i686-linux > >> because the source unpacking process runs out of memory. > > > > I believe if we limit the unpacking process to not more than 8 cores we > > can avoid that problem. > > > >> I'm forwarding this bug to guix-devel to get more attention. > >> > >> Is anybody actually using i686-linux anymore? Or should we begin to > >> officially remove support for it? > > > > Keeping this to i686-linux specifically, what generation of hardware > > supports i686 but not x86_64? Some (very) quick checking on wikipedia > > suggests that the x60 from 2006 was either 32-bit or 64-bit, and I > > believe there was an atom chip from 2015 that was 32-bit. Specifically, > > that makes the newest hardware (at least from the CPU perspective) 10 > > years old at least. > > FWIW, I'm using one of those Atom chips in a netbook for an installation > of Sugar Desktop. I upgrade it every few months or so. If I'm the only > user of i686-linux I would not want to condemn the project to supporting > the architecture for my sake.
For the record, I'm another one still using those atom netbooks. Most software that I use on that machine still builds and runs fine, with the occasional hiccup. But even though I use the arch, I also don't feel particularly inclined to fix the occasional errors and can understand if people here decide to drop support to it.
