Re: Ability to further support 32bit architectures

[Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Jan 11, 2024 at 5:45 AM Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jan 11, 2024 at 09:48:34AM +0000, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote:
> > Disabling debug symbols, enabling debug symbol zstd compression, using
> > split debug symbols (disabled BTF usage) should help here.
>
> Okay, maybe more workarounds exist.  But none of them look really
> promising.

Also see <https://wiki.debian.org/ReduceBuildMemoryOverhead>.

> > Separately, I wish we had cross-builders available, and cross-build
> > i386/armhf kernels from amd64/arm64 and thus having access to 64-bit
> > compiler.
>
> Real cross-builders would use some fast amd64/arm64/ppc64el (and for
> amd64 also reasonably cheap) machines to build all other architectures.

Jeff