On Thu, 2017-07-27 at 13:32 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: > On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 12:02 PM, Adam Williamson > <adamwill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, 2017-07-27 at 06:09 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: > > > On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 7:17 PM, Adam Williamson > > > <adamwill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Hi, folks! This is just a heads-up for anyone who's been watching the > > > > openQA test results for an update, or something, and been confused. > > > > > > > > A few days ago we added a new ppc64 openQA worker host box; ultimately > > > > > > Out of curiosity, do you mean ppc64, ppc64le, or both? > > > > > > If ppc64le isn't the main target for openQA, i'd strongly recommend > > > switching to that. > > > > I can't remember which arch we installed the host with, but it doesn't > > actually matter much because all openQA tests run in VMs, and > > apparently you can get native speed virt for both ppc64 and ppc64le no > > matter which the host is running. At least, so I was told. > > OK, let me elaborate as to why I recommend focusing on ppc64le. > > Big-endian ppc64 has been essentially put in maintenance mode. This > means that we'll make efforts to keep the base OS functional, but it > will not get new shiny things like golang, containers, Atomic, etc. > At some point we will likely deprecate it completely, but we aren't at > that point yet. > > So if you have installed the host with ppc64, that would be somewhat > regrettable. It's not really a big deal either way; all the openQA boxes can be reinstalled at the drop of a hat in any case. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
