Re: Test machines for s390x?

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On Thu, Aug 6, 2020 at 2:00 PM Adam Williamson
<adamwill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2020-08-06 at 13:42 -0400, Robbie Harwood wrote:
> > Elliott Sales de Andrade <quantum.analyst@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Now that ppc64 is gone, s390x is the only big-endian architecture
> > > left. Bugs around endianness are not usually difficult to fix, _if_ I
> > > can debug it and see where exactly the problem is. However, this
> > > requires a tedious guess-a-patch, try a scratch build, check the
> > > result, rinse and repeat.
> > >
> > > Mock (with --forcearch) is completely useless for this. The programs
> > > just crash during the build in such a way that I can't even use
> > > `catchsegv`, and gdb is unusable in the container. And besides, the
> > > programs don't actually crash on real s390x anyway..
> > >
> > > Just like we have test machines for other less used architectures [1],
> > > I am wondering if there is some way we can spin up a test machine for
> > > s390x?
> > >
> > > [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Machine_Resources_For_Package_Maintainers
> >
> > It's very strange to me that having test hardware available isn't a
> > requirement for being a Primary architecture, or for that architecture
> > being present in koji.  IMO we should change that going forward.
>
> s390x isn't a primary arch. It's an alternative arch.
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures

That page is out of date. All architectures are effectively primary
now, since failures for any arch block builds from releasing in Koji.



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