> 1) Is there any effort (current or planned for the near-future) to revive any > of the IA64, ARM, MIPS or SPARC systems?
MIPS boards in the form of some edge router pros are currently being shipped to the CFarm in France courtesy of Imagination Technologies. Ø 2) Is there any desire from users to see QEMU-emulated ARM, MIPS or SPARC within cfarm if the real h/w is non-recoverable? For non-performance testing I am keen to make as much use of qemu as possible in test environments. That includes all of bare metal testing using qemu system emulator, Linux tools via the user-mode emulator. I haven't ever looked at the performance of building GCC inside a QEMU emulated full system emulator with Linux but I suspect it may be prohibitively slow. Thanks, Matthew From: Gcc-cfarm-users [mailto:gcc-cfarm-users-boun...@gna.org] On Behalf Of Paul Hargrove Sent: 28 April 2015 23:32 To: gcc-cfarm-users@gna.org Subject: [Gcc-cfarm-users] Future of non-x86/Linux platforms? I've seen this topic addressed in the archives, and don't want to restart any of the arguments about how useful/relevant CFarm has become. >From my point of view "beggars can't be choosers" and so this email is just my >observations and a few questions and NOT any sort of complaint. As others have observed, the gcc-cfarm systems that are currently usable are almost exclusively x86-64/Linux. There are certainly notable exceptions, such as + The POWER7 and POWER8 systems donated by IBM (thanks guys!). + AIX and NetBSD on gcc111 and gcc70, respectively + The VMs on gcc76 Since most of us probably use Linux or OSX on x86-64 every day, this is not "diverse" for some of us (though I know our definitions of "diverse" will differ). So, I want to ask: 1) Is there any effort (current or planned for the near-future) to revive any of the IA64, ARM, MIPS or SPARC systems? 2) Is there any desire from users to see QEMU-emulated ARM, MIPS or SPARC within cfarm if the real h/w is non-recoverable? 3) Is there any desire from the users to see newer {Free,Net,Open}BSD than presently in gcc76's set of VMs? 4) Is there any desire from the users to see Solaris on x86-64 (either VM or bare metal)? Before somebody jumps on me: I am *not* trying to push more work on the CFarm admin(s). In fact, if there is interest in #2 or #3, I may be able to help by providing drive images I use on my own system now. If there is interest in #4, Oracle provides pre-packed installers for use with VirtualBox. Of course, if my questions show ignorance of some resources already available in the cfarm, please let me know. -Paul -- Paul H. Hargrove Computer Languages & Systems Software (CLaSS) Group Computer Science Department Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
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