Re: Guix on aarch64

[Joshua Branson <jbranso@fastmail.com>]

Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:

> Hi Leo,
>
>> On Sun, Aug 26, 2018 at 12:13:44PM -0400, Mark H Weaver wrote:
>>> Regardless, I think we should seriously consider moving the Aarch64
>>> build slave(s) to Hydra for now, until Cuirass is more mature.
>>
>> I agree with your points about why berlin.guixsd.org makes it harder to
>> maintain the aarch64 port. I use Berlin substitutes alongside those of
>> Hydra but I don't actually do any build debugging with Berlin yet
>> because I don't know how to use the interface effectively.
>
> I think our use of Hydra is not sustainable.  It requires regular manual
> intervention by Mark, careful tuning of SQL queries, conscientious
> clean up of old substitutes, and we have not a single person familiar
> with the Perl code.
>
> We do have people working on Cuirass, though.  Let’s add important
> missing features to Cuirass instead of making efforts to keep Hydra on
> life support.
>
>> It would be really great to get another pair of machines with similar
>> capabilities.
>
> I agree.  We need volunteers to pick a particular configuration (my
> suggestion is to start with an Overdrive 3000 rack server[1]) and find a
> place to host these servers.  We have not been successful in delegating
> this to other people and unfortunately the maintainers cannot take care
> of this themselves.
>
> [1]: https://shop.softiron.com/product/overdrive-3000/

Just out of curiosity, would that server run libreboot?

>
> --
> Ricardo