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 > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> 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 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/20201205/3f8733f2/attachment-0006.html>