[CentOS-devel] Proposal: CentOS x86 SIG

Mon Mar 6 10:29:39 UTC 2023
Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat.com>

* Fabian Arrotin:

> On 02/03/2023 06:20, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> * Fabian Arrotin:
>> 
>>> On 27/02/2023 18:23, Florian Weimer wrote:
>>>> # Goals
>>>>
>>> <snip>
>>>> Resources
>>>> They SIG could benefit from spare x86-64 Koji builder capacity.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Can you elaborate on that ? You mean just using existing x86_64
>>> builders (matching x86-64-v2 specs but nothing like v3), right ?
>>> Just trying to capture things before it's even just accepted as a SIG
>>> .. and not after, realizing that we wouldn't have what you're
>>> searching for :)
>> I think the CentOS builders are already compatible with x86-64-v4,
>> so no
>> configuration changes are needed.  I verified that for
>> x86-02.stream.rdu2.redhat.com: it reports all the necessary CPU
>> features.
>> 
>
> Well, yes, but that's not the infra that SIGs are using either :
> Stream is itself built elsewhere (different koji/infra), reason why I
> was asking if you need something on the infra *where* SIGs are
> building packages (older than the Stream infra)

I had not realized this.  For the x86-64-v3 builds, we can use the SIG
infrastructure from a build machine perspective (thanks Brian for
confirming).  Depending on what we discover, this may not be the right
way to deliver the most valuable optimizations to end users, though.

Thanks,
Florian