> On Sep 14, 2023, at 5:19 PM, Stefan Lippers-Hollmann <s....@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> On 2023-09-14, Paul Spooren wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I’d like to merge the PR which adds the Mellanox Spectrum SN2100 to
>> OpenWrt[1]. In its current state a new x86 image would be added next
>> to the generic x86 image. Another approach is to add all related
>> packages to the default image. Either way creates a working image.
>>
>> I remember that people were complaining about a “bloated” x86 image
>> which slows down their container/VM needs. So what would be a simple
>> way forward here?
> [...]
>
> If at all reasonably possible (assuming the size increase is roughly in
> the ball park of 1-2 MB for the total image), I'd suggest to stick to a
> single x86_64 image for maintenance and testing reasons alone. The bump
> of the x86 targets to kernel v6.1 -while easy- is mostly stalled due to
> there being three 32 bit x86 sub-targets and the need to go through the
> kernel config rebase three times, which is wearing thin the patience and
> motivation of doing so (x86_64 alone would have been ready >2 months
> ago). Unless these SN2100 devices suddenly become a cheap commodity and
> ubiquitous among OpenWrt developers and -users, I fear that it would
> just add to this churn and pretty much rot away in the tree, while at
> the same time making progress harder for the other x86{,_64} devices.
>
> Regards
> Stefan Lippers-Hollmann
Sometime back I tried to add "pcituils" and "usbutils" to the generic x86_64
image, and was told that they weren't sufficiently "ubiquitous" to add to the
default image.
I note that they can be removed from the BOM easily by doing:
DEVICE_PACKAGES += -pciutils -usbutils
And that would remove them if they were already present in $(DEVICE_PACKAGES).
I've never encountered an x86_64 platform that didn't have both USB and PCI, as
they've without question become a "cheap commodity".
Contrarily, I've yet to own or operate a platform that has a Mellanox switch.
This seems arbitrary.
-Philip
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