[CentOS-devel] Building ARM64 RPMs on AMD64?

Sat Dec 5 22:11:07 UTC 2020
Stephen John Smoogen <smooge at gmail.com>

On Sat, 5 Dec 2020 at 15:24, Simon Matter <simon.matter at invoca.ch> 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?
>
> For what we need they are a bit overkill then, because a dedicated Raspi4
> may also do it for us.
>
>
https://amperecomputing.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Lenovo_ThinkSystem_HR350A_20190118.pdf



> Simon
>
> >
> >
> >> Thanks for any insights?
> >>
> >> Simon
> >>
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