Re: F28 System Wide Change: AArch64 Server Promotion

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On 8 January 2018 at 13:03, Jonathan Dieter <jdieter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 2018-01-08 at 12:53 -0500, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
>> On 8 January 2018 at 12:28, Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>> > On Mon, Jan 08, 2018 at 09:16:05AM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
>> > > A significant miss here is 'testing'. Making an arch primary
>> > > means we
>> > > need to ensure we have the necessary resources to run all the
>> > > relevant
>> > > validation testing.
>> >
>> > Are there hardware needs here? (Like, not in the server room but in
>> > QA
>> > team member's hands?)
>> >
>>
>> I would say in both. We would need to make sure we have enough
>> systems
>> which openqa can reliably run on and we need to have some sort of
>> system that testers can get a hand on. That would require a bit of a
>> 'we expect this hardware to work and this is how you buy/get it' from
>> the aarch64 team.. otherwise most everyone is going to come and ask
>> why the raspberry pi 3 isn't supported (just like they did with the
>> raspberry pi 1 and 2.) [I am not looking to rehash why it isn't ..
>> more that is what most testers can get their hands on easily.. and it
>> is not a aarch64 platform we support).
>
> I may be going off in the weeds here, but is https://fedoraproject.org/
> wiki/Architectures/ARM/Raspberry_Pi#Raspberry_Pi_3_aarch64_support not
> accurate when it says it *is* supported?
>

Well I am off by a year or more on supported hardware and was passing
along DUD (Dodgy Unusable Data). That said it would be good to know
what hardware that they want testing on.. in case there is something
about XYZ hardware which makes it bootable/runnable but more out of
luck than anything people want to put effort to fix on.

> Jonathan
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