Hello. 2014-11-04 1:56 GMT+01:00 Brian Gupta <[email protected]>: > On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 11:49 AM, James Bromberger <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Hello all, >> >> We're fast approaching the big freeze[1], so I wanted to start to summarise >> up the status of the EC2 AMIs. >> >> Thanks to Eric Evans, Python-Boto 2.33 hit testing in the last few days. >> This represents a huge step forward from Wheezy's current 2.3.0, bringing ... >> - - support for sub-interfaces via a DHCP script (and metdata server info) >> - - AWS CLI (package awscli) version 1.4.2 (upstream is 1.5.4; differences >> are here [6]) is installed > > Great work James! > >> With the rise of HVM replacing PVM in the AWS environment, and every new >> instance providing more and more memory, I'm going to suggest a few things. >> >> >> First, many providers are now signalling the end of i386 images, and I am >> going to propose that we do similar for Jessie. Wheezy has supported >> multiarch[7], so i386 binaries can run on an amd64 image. > > Agreed on dropping 32-bit images. They haven't been worth the trouble for some > time.
No need to drop 32-bit images. There are also no need to let all packages support 32-bit installed kernels. There can be differences between x86 and amd64 installations. And yes, there are occations when 32-bit support in amd64 is not good enough. Like when the CPU doesn't support the amd64 instructions needed to boot Linux. >> Second, with all current-generation instance types being HVM capable, I am >> going to suggest we no longer generate Paravirtualisation images, . The >> current-generation instance types are generally cheaper and/or more resource >> (memory, CPU) than the previous-generation PVM-only instances, so users >> pretty quickly want only HVM amd64 across their entire set of instances. > > There are still reasons to run the older generation instances, so I'd > be hesitant to completely drop them before AWS announces the > retirement of the HW. That said, I don't know how much work is > involved in building/maintaining them. Nor do I have inside > information on when support for the 1st generation HW will be > retired. Same argument can be said about x86 and amd64. Anyway, thanks for the awaesome work! /Jackson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/CACXJ-Bic-FaJWo=YXmrk6W5DzM=jkuu-h+l0uiymyrou2vr...@mail.gmail.com
