<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, 5 Dec 2020 at 15:24, Simon Matter <<a href="mailto:simon.matter@invoca.ch">simon.matter@invoca.ch</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">> On Sat, 5 Dec 2020 at 14:15, Simon Matter <<a href="mailto:simon.matter@invoca.ch" target="_blank">simon.matter@invoca.ch</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> Hi,<br>
>><br>
>> We are thinking about adding ARM64 based devices to our systems.<br>
>><br>
>> As we are using CentOS almost everywhere and have quite a number of<br>
>> inhouse RPM packages in our company repository, we'd like to enhance it<br>
>> and add ARM64 alias aarch64 to it.<br>
>><br>
>> What I'm still wondering is how to run the build environment for the new<br>
>> arch?<br>
>><br>
>> How does the CentOS project do it, run ARM64 hardware or using<br>
>> emulation?<br>
>> Or to ask differently, is it an option to run the build system emulated<br>
>> with QEMU?<br>
>><br>
>><br>
> CentOS and Fedora use ARM64 hardware to do their builds. I think at one<br>
> point it was being done with emulation but it was slower than expected..<br>
> [if you have only one thing it is probably not a large issue but if you<br>
> have a chain of items to build continuously...] For hardware that works<br>
> well in an 'enterprise' environment, I can recommend the Ampere systems<br>
> that we are using in Fedora.<br>
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I only know the Gigabyte ARM servers, is it what you're using then?<br>
<br>
For what we need they are a bit overkill then, because a dedicated Raspi4<br>
may also do it for us.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><a href="https://amperecomputing.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Lenovo_ThinkSystem_HR350A_20190118.pdf">https://amperecomputing.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Lenovo_ThinkSystem_HR350A_20190118.pdf</a><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
Simon<br>
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>> Thanks for any insights?<br>
>><br>
>> Simon<br>
>><br>
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</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Stephen J Smoogen.<br><br></div></div></div>