On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 12:26 AM Bernhard M. Wiedemann <bernhardout@lsmod.de> wrote:
On 13/08/2020 01.25, Neal Gompa wrote:
The thing is, based on the conversations earlier, it seems like there is no way for openSUSE to support treating ARM, POWER, or RISC-V at the same level as x86. It's been indicated that there's not enough hardware resources to plug into the staging workflow, and the alternative architectures break too much to be included in openSUSE:Factory, and nobody wants to make it mandatory for builds to pass on these architectures before releasing snapshots.
From my perspective, that means any attempt to upgrade the support of alternative architectures is doomed to fail.
I see the discussion the other way round: The docs say, of course we cannot promote RISC-V to primary, until someone solves the listed issues. E.g. add build hardware to OBS, have people fix build+test issues...
Either people put in as much effort as they did with aarch64 - which might therefore become as good as x86_64 soon
or people dont and those other archs remain secondary afterthoughts.
I also include AArch64 in that bucket of architectures that nobody wants to put enough effort into. Even with all the work being put into it, nobody wants to add it to openSUSE:Factory and the staging workflow because they don't want to buy the required hardware to do it. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org