On 6/22/23 06:39, Dirk Müller wrote:
Hi all,
recently I was made aware that openSUSE:Factory:PowerPC is quite a large distribution as it is building for ppc 32bit, ppc64 big endian and ppc64 little endian. in OpenQA as far as I know we are only testing the ppc64 little endian builds.
Given the upcoming data center move and the lack of testing, are there any concerns about turning off the builds for ppc 32bit and ppc64 big endian? It would reduce build power needs as well as disk storage /publishing bandwidth which is shared with other distributions and architectures and becomes a problem because of PowerPC being exceptionally large.
I am one of a few people running a PowerBook G4 with ppc32 architecture. I was not aware that openSUSE had a distribution for it. At the moment, I am running Debian 12, and I hate it, but it does not seem wise to switch to openSUSE if the build will be ended. My main usage of the G4 is to check that new kernel releases actually run on a real ppc32. The QEMU emulation is getting better, but in the past there were some things that ran on the emulator, but failed on real hardware. A second task is to check USB wireless drivers for correct operation on big-endian hardware. Larry