Re: [PATCH 0/2] Deprecate support for 32-bit x86 and arm hosts

2023-02-28 Thread Warner Losh
On Wed, Mar 1, 2023, 12:36 AM Markus Armbruster wrote: > "Michael S. Tsirkin" writes: > > > On Tue, Feb 28, 2023 at 09:05:16PM +0100, Thomas Huth wrote: > >> Well, without CI, I assume that the code will bitrot quite fast > (considering > >> that there are continuous improvements to TCG, for exa

Re: [PATCH 0/2] Deprecate support for 32-bit x86 and arm hosts

2023-02-28 Thread Markus Armbruster
"Michael S. Tsirkin" writes: > On Tue, Feb 28, 2023 at 09:05:16PM +0100, Thomas Huth wrote: >> Well, without CI, I assume that the code will bitrot quite fast (considering >> that there are continuous improvements to TCG, for example). > > We have lots of hosts which we don't test with CI. They

Re: [PATCH 0/2] Deprecate support for 32-bit x86 and arm hosts

2023-02-28 Thread Thomas Huth
On 28/02/2023 22.32, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: On Tue, Feb 28, 2023 at 09:05:16PM +0100, Thomas Huth wrote: Well, without CI, I assume that the code will bitrot quite fast (considering that there are continuous improvements to TCG, for example). We have lots of hosts which we don't test with C

Re: [PATCH 0/2] Deprecate support for 32-bit x86 and arm hosts

2023-02-28 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
On Tue, Feb 28, 2023 at 09:05:16PM +0100, Thomas Huth wrote: > Well, without CI, I assume that the code will bitrot quite fast (considering > that there are continuous improvements to TCG, for example). We have lots of hosts which we don't test with CI. They don't bitrot because people do testing

Re: [PATCH 0/2] Deprecate support for 32-bit x86 and arm hosts

2023-02-28 Thread Thomas Huth
On 28/02/2023 10.01, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: On Tue, Feb 28, 2023 at 08:39:49AM +0100, Thomas Huth wrote: On 27/02/2023 19.38, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: On Mon, Feb 27, 2023 at 12:10:48PM +0100, Thomas Huth wrote: We're struggling quite badly with our CI minutes on the shared gitlab runners,

Re: [PATCH 0/2] Deprecate support for 32-bit x86 and arm hosts

2023-02-28 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
On Tue, Feb 28, 2023 at 09:01:46AM +, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > If we're merely wanting to drop CI support, we can do that any time and > deprecation is not required/expected. We should only be using deprecation > where we're explicitly intending that the code will cease to work. Good point

Re: [PATCH 0/2] Deprecate support for 32-bit x86 and arm hosts

2023-02-28 Thread Daniel P . Berrangé
On Tue, Feb 28, 2023 at 08:39:49AM +0100, Thomas Huth wrote: > On 27/02/2023 19.38, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 27, 2023 at 12:10:48PM +0100, Thomas Huth wrote: > > > We're struggling quite badly with our CI minutes on the shared > > > gitlab runners, so we urgently need to think of w

Re: [PATCH 0/2] Deprecate support for 32-bit x86 and arm hosts

2023-02-27 Thread Thomas Huth
On 27/02/2023 19.38, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: On Mon, Feb 27, 2023 at 12:10:48PM +0100, Thomas Huth wrote: We're struggling quite badly with our CI minutes on the shared gitlab runners, so we urgently need to think of ways to cut down our supported build and target environments. qemu-system-i38

Re: [PATCH 0/2] Deprecate support for 32-bit x86 and arm hosts

2023-02-27 Thread Daniel P . Berrangé
On Mon, Feb 27, 2023 at 12:10:48PM +0100, Thomas Huth wrote: > We're struggling quite badly with our CI minutes on the shared > gitlab runners, so we urgently need to think of ways to cut down > our supported build and target environments. qemu-system-i386 and > qemu-system-arm are not really requi