From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dftxbs3e Subject: Re: New POWER9 machines for the Guix build farm? Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2019 02:22:22 +0100 Message-ID: References: <871rtsakoq.fsf@nckx> <87o8wipcz4.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:43970) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ie7kw-0006CG-09 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Dec 2019 20:22:35 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ie7ks-0001lR-5z for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Dec 2019 20:22:33 -0500 Received: from smtp3-g21.free.fr ([2a01:e0c:1:1599::12]:51143) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ie7kr-0001jM-8b for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Dec 2019 20:22:29 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87o8wipcz4.fsf@gmail.com> 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: Chris Marusich , Tobias Geerinckx-Rice Cc: Guix Devel On 12/9/19 1:19 AM, Chris Marusich wrote: > Tobias Geerinckx-Rice writes: > >> Fellow Guix, >> >> The Guix sysadmins are considering buying shiny hardware for the >> ci.guix.gnu.org build farm, and it would be awesome if that included >> our first POWER9 machine(s)! >> >> However, few (if any) Guixers have any hands-on experience with this >> architecture, let alone buying and installing whole systems. Some >> remember a bad experience with a prominent vendor, and it would appear >> that they're not alone[0]. >> >> There's also some concern that getting these machines up and running >> will take significant effort. >> >> So please, share your expertise and experience in this area! Ideally, >> we need someone to volunteer to (help) set up any new POWER9 boxes and >> later take care of them when needed. It would certainly help justify >> the multi-thousand-euro bill. >> >> Kind regards, >> >> T G-R >> >> PS: For the shorter term, I've applied for an 8-core POWER9 LE >> instance (with 16 GiB of RAM) for Guix at OSUOSL[1]. Assuming that >> it's accepted, it should be available within a week. >> >> [0]: >> https://drewdevault.com/2019/09/23/RaptorCS-Blackbird-a-horror-story.html, >> but read https://drewdevault.com/2019/10/10/RaptorCS-redemption.html >> as well :-) >> [1]: https://osuosl.org/services/powerdev/ > I think it's a great idea. To test the waters, someone could try using > one of these free VMs and see how Guix System does on them: > > https://openpowerfoundation.org/minicloud-free-openpower-cloud/ > > First, bootstrap binaries have to be built for the hardware, anyway, > right? Maybe someone can do that work on one of those free VMs? > That work is already done! See: https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=38459 Current issue is gcc-cross-boot0 not building. See build log at: https://gitlab.com/lle-bout/guix/-/jobs/372934160