Am Donnerstag, 22. November 2012, 12:45:00 schrieb Alexander Graf:
On 22.11.2012, at 12:37, Andrew Wafaa <awafaa@opensuse.org> wrote:
On 22 November 2012 11:34, Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> wrote:
On 22.11.2012, at 11:27, Guillaume Gardet <guillaume.gardet@free.fr> wrote:
Hi,
Le 22/11/2012 11:20, Andrew Wafaa a écrit :
Aloha all,
Does anyone know if something similar has started within openSUSE? None of the work being undertaken by Fedora at this point is covered by any restrictions, so there should be nothing stopping openSUSE from doing something similar.
AFAIK, nobody is working on it.
I'm happy to make a start, so long as someone can confirm what process/steps is desired for the bootstarp process on openSUSE.
I could help too, but I do not know what must be done! ;) Adrian and/or Alex may help?
Last time the bootstrap required Adrians magic hands :). The main problem I'm facing with AArch64 bootstrap is speed. The emulator is incredibly slow.
Alex
I can't comment about Adrians powers of voodoo :) With regards to speed, yes it is slow but there is no QEMU support yet so it will have to do. Does SUSE have a Cloud instance that we could use to parellelise the build? If not, maybe we could look at getting something up on AWS?
Yes, we have a cloud, but the bootstrap can't be parallelized and needs quite a bit of manual intervention every now and then :). So that won't help _too_ much.
Without qemu support the only way is to go the cross compile approach. B1-Systems is currently pushing patches for OBS to support this, but since it is invasive it is a time consuming work to merge them. However, it may be interessting to run another OBS instance where we just take all of their patches and try to cross build for aarch64. In any case, it would be helpfull if people can find out which patches esp. for binutils and gcc are used to support that aarch and adapt them for the suse packages, so that they apply at least. -- Adrian Schroeter SUSE Linux Products GmbH email: adrian@suse.de -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-arm+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-arm+owner@opensuse.org