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. Perhaps a different question, what software _available in Guix_ is supported by i686 that isn't supported by x86_64? In terms of side-stepping the question, do we have enough x86_64 hardware to continue to support i686 without degrading support for x86_64? (I ask this seriously, although I'm pretty certain the answer is we're well covered on that front.) -- Efraim Flashner רנשלפ םירפא GPG key = A28B F40C 3E55 1372 662D 14F7 41AA E7DC CA3D 8351 Confidentiality cannot be guaranteed on emails sent or received unencrypted