Re: Application for aarch64 computing resources

[Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org>]

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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

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