From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jonathan Brielmaier Subject: Re: RFC: Portability should be a higher priority for Guix (was Re: 01/01: build-system/meson: Really skip the 'fix-runpath' phase on armhf.) Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2018 11:04:31 +0200 Message-ID: <60e81e03-3188-cb22-fd5d-124e1444f83a@web.de> References: <20180702101757.22792.51026@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <20180702101758.97A6020543@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <8736x1r1g0.fsf@netris.org> <877emdwm0f.fsf@fastmail.com> <87efgknn2v.fsf@netris.org> <87in5veaao.fsf@gnu.org> <871scin5bs.fsf_-_@netris.org> <87k1qamy30.fsf@posteo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41381) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fb0Bq-0007yY-Q6 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jul 2018 05:04:39 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fb0Bn-0007w2-Lp for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jul 2018 05:04:38 -0400 Received: from mout.web.de ([212.227.15.14]:58047) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fb0Bn-0007rj-AN for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jul 2018 05:04:35 -0400 Received: from [10.161.59.95] ([195.135.221.2]) by smtp.web.de (mrweb002 [213.165.67.108]) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0Lechi-1fu7Fm38yk-00qVgD for ; Thu, 05 Jul 2018 11:04:32 +0200 In-Reply-To: <87k1qamy30.fsf@posteo.net> Content-Language: en-US List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: guix-devel@gnu.org On 7/5/18 12:32 AM, Kei Kebreau wrote: >> I'm open to suggestions. Do you see any solution to the problem of how >> to attract more non-x86_64 users, given our current policies? >> >> Thanks, >> Mark > > I am interested in helping with non-x86_64 issues. Particularly, helping > with i686-related changes should be just a change in workflow, but I'm > interested in obtaining freedom-respecting non-x86 hardware (or at least > using a virtual machine as close as possible to real hardware > configurations). Any recommendation or links for where I can get a > Yeeloong laptop or what freedom-respecting armhf computers are > available? I just want to bring POWER up as a freedom-respecting architecture. Especially the TalosII from RaptorCS[0]. I know that guix does not work on ppc64le yet, but I'm working for it :) They tend to be quite expensive, but you get a decent performance on compiling and packing[1]. Regarding ARM hardware: I have access to a bunch of performant ARM machines (Cavium Thunder, AMD ARM stuff etc.) at work. So feel free to drop me a mail or set me to CC, if you need something to be tested on ARM :) [0] https://raptorcs.com/ [1] https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=power9-talos-2&num=3