Re: aarch64 machines donated by ARM!

[Richard Henwood <Richard.Henwood@arm.com>]

Hi Ludo',

Thanks for this update and your efforts to get Guix building on
AArch64! Do you perform any automated testing continuously or on
releases? I am interested to see if anything is failing on different
architectures.

I haven't forgotten that you are down one machine. It sounds like
you'll be perfectly happy just swapping out the power supply, so I'll
ask colleagues what they suggest, or figure out an alternative.

best regards,
Richard

On Thu, 2018-01-25 at 14:23 +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hello Guix!
>
> In December, Richard Henwood of ARM Holdings kindly donated two
> SoftIron
> OverDrive 1000:
>
>   https://softiron.com/development-tools/overdrive-1000/
>
> These are 4-core, pretty fast machines.  Both are currently at my
> place
> and I recently added one to the berlin.guixsd.org build farm.  It
> started building packages from the ‘core-updates’ branch, though it’s
> not working at full speed yet due to the Cuirass developments going
> on.
>
> The second machine needs a replacement of its power supply unit.
> Unfortunately, SoftIron stopped answering my messages after initially
> offering to provide a replacement.  I started looking for a
> compatible
> PSU in on-line shops but the form factor is quite unusual
> (160x65x65mm).
> If you know where to get that, I’m all ears!
>
> Anyway, we’ll now be able to continuously provide binaries for
> aarch64,
> and that’s really great news.  I suppose we’ll need to increase the
> build capacity for aarch64 eventually so we can keep up with the
> change
> rate, but that’s a great start.
>
> Thanks a lot to ARM and to Richard for this donation!
>
> Ludo’.
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