[LEDE-DEV] [PATCH RFC 2/2] x86: lift generic x86-32 target

[Felix Fietkau]

On 2016-05-19 01:17, Stijn Tintel wrote:
> On 17-05-16 23:37, Felix Fietkau wrote:
>> On 2016-05-17 23:12, Daniel Golle wrote:
>>> * build for pentium4 instead of i486
>>> * enable PAE
>>> * enable EFI support
>>> * enable KVM guest and host support
> Is anyone running KVM on a 32bit host? I would leave out KVM host
> support here.
>> I like this change, but I think I'll wait a bit before applying it to
>> see if anybody else has some comments about it.
>>
> I too think x86 and subtargets need some love, but let's not rush
> things. Maybe now is a good time to discus other things related to x86
> as well.
> 
> E.g., a while ago I created a profile for x86/64 for the PCEngines APU2,
> but never submitted it, so I put it at [1] now. Last year, on
> OpenWrt-Devel, Felix suggested [2] instead. I would like to hear others'
> opinions about this too.
> 
> And if any else has other ideas... Looking forward to hear them.
> 
> Stijn
> 
> [1] https://git.lede-project.org/?p=lede/stintel/staging.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/apu2
> [2] https://lists.openwrt.org/pipermail/openwrt-devel/2015-November/037035.html
I made that suggestion regarding the APU2 subtarget, because the Imre
Kaloz was objecting to making the x86/64 subtarget more generic, and he
was the maintainer of it. Now that the maintainership situation has
changed, a separate subtarget is no longer necessary.

Since x86 is not disk/memory constrained, I also think we should avoid
adding a profile for these devices.
I would like to have the default image just work on these things.

- Felix