> Le 27 avr. 2023 à 02:00, Elliott Mitchell <ehem+open...@m5p.com> a écrit : > > On Thu, Apr 27, 2023 at 12:46:49AM +0200, Stefan Lippers-Hollmann wrote: > >> While I might understand (understand, not support) a desire for this >> as a dedicated subtarget (to appease the virtualization crowd), >> although I still don't see a reason or sufficient uptake in more >> conventional Linux environments. I would not be happy (at all) to >> lose 'normal' x86_64 support (on real hardware) for this exotic >> fringe hybrid. I can imagine that actually building for this >> environment (with a 32 bit userland) might lead to 'funny' results >> as well (as in major toolchain changes necessary to get it working >> as expected). > > I'm not proposing removing amd64 support, I'm proposing x32 is likely a > more valuable target.
Do you mean to actually introduce an x86_x32 userspace target in OpenWrt? If so, I suggest you take a look at [1] to get an idea of the can of worms you might be opening there. I do not think OpenWrt has the resources to handle this level of breakage for such an exotic, barely upstream supported target. > Yet what you're describing reads like your desire > is for OpenWRT/x86 to simply be yet another desktop Linux distribution. > > Unless you feel a networking device really needs 256GB of memory, virtual > machines are precisely what OpenWRT/x86 *should* target. I think it is > reasonable to also have a jumbo/desktop build, but using an entire x86 > machine doesn't seem to match OpenWRT's main theme. You seem to ignore perfectly capable so-called « mini pc » routers which are in use out there. They don’t need a « jumbo/desktop » build and they don’t have 256GB RAM, yet they work perfectly well with the current OpenWrt image. Cheers, T [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=debian-...@lists.debian.org&tags=port-x32 _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
