[Acked] [PATCH 0/2][E] Remove support for producing i386 kernels

Andy Whitcroft apw at canonical.com
Fri Sep 27 20:24:20 UTC 2019


On Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 03:20:31PM -0500, Seth Forshee wrote:
> BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1845714
> 
> SRU Justification
> 
> Impact: i386 will not be a supported architecture in 19.10, so we should
> drop it from our packaging. However we will still need to support i386
> in hwe kernels.
> 
> Fix: Stop building i386 packages, but keep the configs and other bits
> for supporting i386 in place.
> 
> Test Case: Verify that i386 kernels are no longer produced, but that
> configs can still be updated.
> 
> Regression Potential: The changes are straightforward, and any
> regressions are likely to be build-time issues, so regressions impacting
> users are unlikely.
> 
> Thanks,
> Seth
> 
> 
> Seth Forshee (2):
>   UBUNTU: [Debian] Remove support for producing i386 kernels
>   UBUNTU: [Debian] Don't use CROSS_COMPILE for i386 configs
> 
>  debian.master/control.d/vars.generic    |  6 +++---
>  debian.master/control.d/vars.lowlatency |  6 +++---
>  debian.master/control.stub.in           | 14 +++++++-------
>  debian.master/etc/getabis               |  1 -
>  debian/scripts/misc/kernelconfig        |  9 +++++++--
>  5 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

Acked-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw at canonical.com>

Looks very sensible. I assume we will need to revert the i386 configs
bit in the linux-hwe this makes.

-apw



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