Re: The future of Linux32 builds and tests

On 10/8/2015 1:01 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> We recently disabled Linux32 talos testing on all trees.
>
> Going forward, the question remains, do we need to run Linux32 tests at all?  This would reduce the complexity of our configs, as well as significantly reduce our AWS bill. Do the linux32 test results provide significant differences from the ones we run on on linux64? I see three options going forward
>
> 1) Run linux32 builds and tests periodically
> 2) Turn off tests but run the builds and make it a Tier 2 platform
> 3) Turn off Linux32 builds + tests entirely
>
> Your data-driven input is sought,
>
> cheers,
> Kim
>
> Bugs of note
> Disable all 32-bit linux testing
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1209932
> Do we need linux32 talos?
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1204920
> Disable linux32 talos testing and reimage machines for windows testing
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1208449
>

Note that SM(arm) builds run on linux32 build slaves (and AFAIK, they 
have to). Not sure where SM builds fit in with all of this, but I 
figured it was at least worth explicitly calling out.