On 03/04/2013 05:54 PM, Alexander Graf wrote:
On 03/04/2013 05:00 PM, Jos Poortvliet wrote:
On Monday 04 March 2013 16:52:57 Jos Poortvliet wrote:
On Thursday 28 February 2013 17:07:22 Alexander Graf wrote:
On 28.02.2013, at 17:04, Andrew Wafaa wrote:
On 28 February 2013 15:15
, Dirk
Müller<dmueller@suse.com> wrote:
2013/2/28 Alexander Graf<agraf@suse.de>:
openSUSE on AArch64
I would like to reword this to ARM 64bit (AArch64)
I know it may sound pedantic, but it would be better if we reword it
to AArch64, the 64-bit execution state of the ARMv8 architecture.
That's way too long. I've cut it down to the essentials below :).
I'm not sure if it is worth saying that we will also support AArch32,
although we are not directly building it. This is a key
differentiator
between us and Fedora. Debian/Ubuntu will sup
port
both execution
states via MultiArch.
I don't think anyone cares :).
Alex
openSUSE on AArch64 (64-bit ARMv8)
For its 1 year anniversary of ARM support, openSUSE is joining the
crowd
of 64 bit enabled ARM distributions. Within the past few months, the
openSUSE team has worked very hard to get openSUSE up and rolling on
ARM's new 64 bit capable architecture and is eager to show first great
results.
By now, about 2400 packages built successfully. Only looking at it
from
the quantity perspective, this is already more than a third of the
whole
openSUSE distribution. From all we know it's also more successful
package
builds than any other Linux distribution has on AArch64! If you'd like
to
see the status yourself, please check out the OBS repository we
created
for this [0].
As an open distribution, we also work
ed
really hard to enable
contributors to easily participate in the effort. For this, we
extended
OBS to automatically spawn a Foundation Model [1] virtual machine when
you want to build for aarch64. This works remotely on the OBS server
(and will hit the 2.4 release) as well as locally using osc build.
More
information on this is available on the respective wiki page [2].
Also our upcoming Open Build Service release 2.4 will fully support
aarch64 builds. Natively or using an emulator. This release can be
used
to build additional aarch64 packages or entire distributions at your
side.
Our next big milestone is going to he a working JeOS image - complete
with YaST, openssh and everything you need for a simple and small
system. We will create that using our standard image building tool
kiwi
and provide a ready-made image for the Foundation Model. Stay tuned!
If all of the
above
got you curious and / or you would like to
participate in this awesome effort, please join us on the openSUSE-ARM
mailing list [3]. There is a lot of fun work to do and and you like
open open source work, you are guaranteed to feel right at home.
Your openSUSE ARM team
I made a few minor edits and put it on-line:
https://news.opensuse.org/?p=15341&preview=true
The openSUSE-arm picture is quite bad, is there anything better?
Also, how certain are we that we have the most packages building on 64
bit? Being able to simply go out and say "we've got most packages on
64bit" allows me to create headlines like "openSUSE wrestles ahead with
64Bit support" or something cool like that ;-)
Thoughts?
/J
I just heard from Agustin that we don't announce this now...
Right, I just t
alked
to Agustin. His take on this is that we should
make the announcement part of the openSUSE 12.3 release. That means
that we need to have everything (wiki page, paragraph, image) up until
Thursday.
https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:ARM/AArch64
Comments are more than welcome. We need to find a better location for
the image too.
Alex