[ Dropped cc to debian-ports etc., switched to debian-arm instead ] On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 04:11:06PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >Hi Roger! > >On 07/23/2018 10:42 AM, Roger Shimizu wrote: >> I talked to a few people about keeping armel in buster, during 1st and >> 2nd day in debcamp. >> Seems the blocker is just the buildd server hardware, and memory size it has. > >According to my colleague Alex Graf at SUSE, you can definitely build >ARMv7 on arm64 using chroots. The only problem with chroots is that >"uname -a" shows "armv8" which some userspace applications are stumbling >over.
And a few other problems - see my mail in the other sub-thread. >openSUSE/SLE builds armv7 packages in OBS/IBS using a fully emulated system >using KVM. Nod. >As for the hardware, you should watch out for hardware with ARM Cortex Cores. >Alternatively, X-Gene 1. ThunderX, ThunderX2 and Centriq are definitely not >supported. Agreed on the others, but X-Gene 1 works just fine for A32. Not sure about later cores... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com Dance like no one's watching. Encrypt like everyone is. - @torproject
