Re: [PATCH 0/5] testing/next - arm custom runner tweaks

[Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>]

On 14/10/2025 19.29, Alex Bennée wrote:
> Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> writes:
> 
>> On 14/10/2025 12.43, Alex Bennée wrote:
>>> This isn't quite ready yet as there is an in-flight MR for libvirt-ci
>>> and the final patch has to manually drop a couple of packages which
>>> don't cleanly install. I don't know if we should deal with that
>>> upstream or in the lcitool metadata. For reference the two packages
>>> are:
>>>     libcurl4-gnutls-dev:armhf
>>>     libglusterfs-dev:armhf
>>
>> FYI, glusterfs is deprecated in QEMU since a while:
>>
>>   https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/commit/b873463821343c6f702c4195f2168790b09cf44e
>>
>> ... so you could also add a patch that removes it from QEMU now, I
>> guess.
> 
> I can do that.
> 
> 
> Richard and Phillipe reminded me that we are due to drop 32 bit hosts
> real soon now so maybe I should just remove the runner and the hacks
> needed to get it working?

Let see ... the last time I tried to deprecate 32-bit arm, I've been told 
that the Raspberry Pis still use a 32-bit OS by default:

  https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/F852C238-77B8-4E24-9494-8D060EB78F9F@livius.net/

... and the right time to drop 32-bit arm is when most Pi users install a 
64-bit OS by default:

  https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/379B4C23-61C2-4AA3-A851-EEFC98A9AFF6@livius.net/

So looking at https://www.raspberrypi.com/software/operating-systems/ now, 
it seems like the 64-bit version is the default nowadays (at least it is the 
first option there, and no more recommendation for the 32-bit version), so 
yes, it's likely about time to get rid of the 32-bit arm hosts now!

  Thomas