Excellent proposal. I of course think this would be just awesome! -- Sent from my iPad On Jul 9, 2013, at 15:37, Jaroslav Reznik <jreznik@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > = Proposed System Wide Change: ARM as primary Architecture = > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/ARM_as_Primary > > Change owner(s): Dennis Gilmore <dennis@xxxxxxxx>, Peter Robinson > <pbrobinson@xxxxxxxxx> > > Make ARM a primary architecture. Add armv7hl to the i686 and x86_64 as arches > that we build and support. This will mean that all packages supported by the > ARM architecture must build for ARM to be released. With the release of Fedora > 19 we have deprecated support for software floating support (ARMv5tel sfp) so > the only proposed addition to primary architectures is currently ARMv7 > hardware floating point 32 bit support (ARMv7 hfp 32bit). > > == Detailed description == > The Changing IT landscape has started to focus on greener technologies as well > as cheaper mass produced devices that allow for fully functional cheap devices > for lower socio-economic areas and other markets like education and "makers". > ARM SoCs have traditionally been the domain of embedded and mobile > applications but are now finding their way into more traditional computing > devices like desktop, notebook and server markets. Fedora ARM currently works > on many different devices with wider support coming with each new mainline > kernel release. > > For this change we will enable armv7hl builds on primary koji, and compose arm > trees as with the other primary architectures. Fedora has in the Phoenix data > centre 96 quad core Calxeda EnergyCore server nodes. Some of these nodes will > remain allocated to the arm secondary architecture koji instance for building > updates for the current Fedora 18 and 19 releases. When Fedora 18 goes end of > life the ARMv5 softfp nodes will able to be be reallocated to other tasks. > Infrastructure has expressed an interest in testing and experimenting with > some of its workloads on ARM, some are allocated to QA and some for releng. > There is currently 24 nodes configured in primary koji ready to go as builders, > there is the capacity to add up to 24 more when ARM becomes primary if > desired. > > The kernel is now a multi platform unified ARMv7 kernel supporting a number of > SoCs with support expanding with each new upstream release. We build a base > and LPAE variant similar to i686. There is an ARM specific (ARMv7 and aarch64) > kernel maintainer working in collaboration with the Fedora kernel team. The > releases are composed using the exact same tooling as used for the primary > architectures. Disk images for development boards are generated by appliance- > creator and the kickstarts live in spin-kickstarts, they take a similar format > as the livecds on primary but are shipped as an OEM disk image, and like > primary initial-setup is used to do final user configuration. Like primary pungi > is used to generate an install tree, PXE install trees are created but current > bootloaders don't support isofs so ISO images aren't currently created. > > == Scope == > Add armv7hl to list of arches for f20-build and future build tags in koji > compose armhfp trees with i386 and x86_64. Requisite build hardware already > exists in phx2 and is configured to work with mainline koji. > > Proposal owners: change the arches in koji, import the matching ARMv7 rawhide > builds into koji. Update Release Engineering scripts to automatically build > armhfp trees along with i686 and x86_64. > > Other developers: submit builds as normal, in the event of unexpected build > failures liaise with the ARM Team to help debug and fix issues. > > Release engineering: Will need to add armhfp to the release processes and make > arm install trees and disk images with each milestone compose. Release > Engineering are part of the team of people proposing the Change. > > Policies and guidelines: armv7hl builds will be required to complete for > builds to be successful in koji > _______________________________________________ > devel-announce mailing list > devel-announce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel-announce > -- > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
