On 5/12/20 17:24, Simon Matter wrote: >> 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? I'm using a Solidrun Honeycomb, which is somewhere in the middle, It is not a server, but definitely more than a raspi. > > 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 >> Pablo