[CentOS-devel] Building ARM64 RPMs on AMD64?

Sat Dec 5 19:50:13 UTC 2020
Stephen John Smoogen <smooge at gmail.com>

On Sat, 5 Dec 2020 at 14:15, Simon Matter <simon.matter at invoca.ch> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We are thinking about adding ARM64 based devices to our systems.
>
> As we are using CentOS almost everywhere and have quite a number of
> inhouse RPM packages in our company repository, we'd like to enhance it
> and add ARM64 alias aarch64 to it.
>
> What I'm still wondering is how to run the build environment for the new
> arch?
>
> How does the CentOS project do it, run ARM64 hardware or using emulation?
> Or to ask differently, is it an option to run the build system emulated
> with QEMU?
>
>
CentOS and Fedora use ARM64 hardware to do their builds. I think at one
point it was being done with emulation but it was slower than expected..
[if you have only one thing it is probably not a large issue but if you
have a chain of items to build continuously...] For hardware that works
well in an 'enterprise' environment, I can recommend the Ampere systems
that we are using in Fedora.



> Thanks for any insights?
>
> Simon
>
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Stephen J Smoogen.
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