Those of us who watch the Guix build farm [0] closely have identified the lack of capacity for building ARM binaries as a serious limitation. As part of our efforts to improve the situation, I've applied for donation of aarch64 (64-bit ARM) computing resources for the Guix build farm: https://github.com/WorksOnArm/cluster/issues/254 This is the official program for getting donations of this type; it's a partnership between Equinix and ARM. Let me know if you see any room for improvement; the application can be edited. [0] https://ci.guix.gnu.org
[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 844 bytes --] On 2021-04-02, Leo Famulari wrote: > Those of us who watch the Guix build farm [0] closely have identified > the lack of capacity for building ARM binaries as a serious limitation. > > As part of our efforts to improve the situation, I've applied for > donation of aarch64 (64-bit ARM) computing resources for the Guix build > farm: > > https://github.com/WorksOnArm/cluster/issues/254 > > This is the official program for getting donations of this type; it's a > partnership between Equinix and ARM. > > Let me know if you see any room for improvement; the application can be > edited. You might want to also ask for hardware that has the extensions for 32-bit arm, if we also want to improve substitute availability for armhf too. The 32-bit extensions are optional for aarch64, and thus not all hardware supports it. live well, vagrant [-- Attachment #2: signature.asc --] [-- Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 227 bytes --]
Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> writes:
> Those of us who watch the Guix build farm [0] closely have identified
> the lack of capacity for building ARM binaries as a serious limitation.
>
> As part of our efforts to improve the situation, I've applied for
> donation of aarch64 (64-bit ARM) computing resources for the Guix build
> farm:
>
> https://github.com/WorksOnArm/cluster/issues/254
> Let me know if you see any room for improvement; the application can be
> edited.
Hi! There's a typo: "dinary distros" -> binary
also, extra 'this' in: this goal this for x86
Thanks, Nicolò
On Fri, Apr 02, 2021 at 08:57:41PM +0200, Nicolò Balzarotti wrote:
> Hi! There's a typo: "dinary distros" -> binary
>
> also, extra 'this' in: this goal this for x86
Thanks! Fixed :)
On Fri, Apr 02, 2021 at 11:56:03AM -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
> You might want to also ask for hardware that has the extensions for
> 32-bit arm, if we also want to improve substitute availability for armhf
> too. The 32-bit extensions are optional for aarch64, and thus not all
> hardware supports it.
I will keep this in mind, pending their reply.
The ticket system automatically added the tag 'hardware/ampere-altra'.
So, it may be a case of "we can have any CPU we want, as long as it's an
Ampere ALTRA"... as Henry Ford said, "Any customer can have a car
painted any color that he wants so long as it is black."
[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 563 bytes --] On Fri, 2021-04-02 at 16:25 -0400, Leo Famulari wrote: > I will keep this in mind, pending their reply. > > The ticket system automatically added the tag 'hardware/ampere- > altra'. > So, it may be a case of "we can have any CPU we want, as long as it's > an > Ampere ALTRA"... as Henry Ford said, "Any customer can have a car > painted any color that he wants so long as it is black." > If we have an entire Ampere Altra to build our stuff, holy we will have so much compute power. Probably it's the fastest single machine on earth right now. [-- Attachment #2: This is a digitally signed message part --] [-- Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 833 bytes --]
Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> writes:
> As part of our efforts to improve the situation, I've applied for
> donation of aarch64 (64-bit ARM) computing resources for the Guix build
> farm:
>
> https://github.com/WorksOnArm/cluster/issues/254
I'm extremely happy to see this, and I hope we can increase our ARM
capacity. Thanks for making this submission, Leo!
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Katherine
On Sat, Apr 03, 2021 at 04:28:28PM -0500, Katherine Cox-Buday wrote:
> I'm extremely happy to see this, and I hope we can increase our ARM
> capacity. Thanks for making this submission, Leo!
Thank you so much for your support!
[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 344 bytes --] On Fri, Apr 02, 2021 at 02:43:20PM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote: > As part of our efforts to improve the situation, I've applied for > donation of aarch64 (64-bit ARM) computing resources for the Guix build > farm: > > https://github.com/WorksOnArm/cluster/issues/254 Unfortunately our request was not granted, due to limited inventory. [-- Attachment #2: signature.asc --] [-- Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 833 bytes --]
Hi,
Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> skribis:
> On Fri, Apr 02, 2021 at 02:43:20PM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote:
>> As part of our efforts to improve the situation, I've applied for
>> donation of aarch64 (64-bit ARM) computing resources for the Guix build
>> farm:
>>
>> https://github.com/WorksOnArm/cluster/issues/254
>
> Unfortunately our request was not granted, due to limited inventory.
Too bad; thanks for letting us know.
So now’s a good time to spend the project’s money on AArch64 hardware.
I think there’s already some on its ways, right?
If people can think of other potential sponsors, we can get in touch
with them, too!
Thanks,
Ludo’.