> Am 16.11.2021 um 21:23 schrieb Stephen John Smoogen <smo...@gmail.com>: > > > > On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 15:10 Peter Boy <p...@uni-bremen.de> wrote: > > ... > This could (hopefully) solve a number of problems raised by various > contributors to the discussion (and preserve the „trademark"). > > > The main problem is that armv7 is currently built on a set of AARCh64 dual > instruction CPU systems from AMPERE. These boxes can run VM’s of armv7 > instructions and allow us to do builds for Fedora. They are also the way that > what few QA tests can be done are done. These systems are also no longer > built, and the newer systems are AARCH64 only. > > While it is possible to run ARM via QEMU emulation, this is mainly ‘for > demonstration purposes’ only. The QEMU emulation is about 4 times to 20 times > slower than native running and can lock and crash on non-reproducible faults > regularly. Because failed servers cause ALL koji architectures to fail a > build.. it would mean a lot of crashed builds for an architecture we can’t > regularly debug. > > Fedora does not do cross compilation so that is not a way out of this either. > > These are the major reasons for retiring the armv7 architecture with the hope > they are retired before we end up with no builders in the middle of a > release.
Oh, I see, packages and their number are the least of the problems here. Thanks. Peter _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
