> 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. I only know the Gigabyte ARM servers, is it what you're using then? For what we need they are a bit overkill then, because a dedicated Raspi4 may also do it for us. Simon > > >> 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. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-devel mailing list > CentOS-devel at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel >