Re: Fedora 33 System-Wide Change proposal: ELN Buildroot and Compose

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Dne 25. 03. 20 v 4:59 Neal Gompa napsal(a):
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 5:33 AM Aleksandra Fedorova <alpha@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> == Detailed Description ==
>>
>> This Change supersedes the previously-approved [[Changes/Additional
>> buildroot to test x86-64 micro-architecture update|Change]] to enable
>> an additional buildroot. During development, its scope has expanded to
>> include the entire process of how the Fedora sources are built and
>> composed into shippable artifacts.
>>
>> ELN is an evolution of the request for an alternate buildroot for
>> newer x86_64 processors. The reasoning behind that new buildroot was
>> that we expected that the next major release of RHEL would likely drop
>> support for older hardware and therefore could take advantage of
>> enhancements and processor extensions available for newer hardware. As
>> plans for this proceeded, they expanded into a desire to do more than
>> just test out the processor architecture. Instead, we want to have a
>> complete alternative compose of Fedora Rawhide that resembles the way
>> that Red Hat and CentOS builds their packages. The idea being that
>> Fedora developers and third-party vendors who rely on Red Hat
>> Enterprise Linux have a place where they can directly contribute to
>> what will eventually become the next RHEL.
>>
> I'd like to point out here that if your proposal on x86_64 changes for
> ELN are anything like the ones proposed before that were rejected in
> Fedora, I literally would have nearly zero servers that can run ELN
> software. Server lifetimes are long, and depending on what you're
> optimizing for, you're not as likely to have all the newest whiz-bang
> "high end" instructions that Intel puts in their CPUs.


Since Neal have mentioned Intel and x86_64, I assume that ELN is going
to support as much architectures as Fedora provides, is that right?


Vít

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