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 > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-devel mailing list > CentOS-devel at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel > -- Stephen J Smoogen. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/attachments/20201205/d9a10b26/attachment-0006.html>