Michael Weiser <[email protected]> writes: > That's exactly the rabbithole I went down and got lost in the last time: > armeb is so niche that I'm not aware of any ready-to-install mainstream > distribution for it. I am running Gentoo but that's not easy to maintain > in a CI setting. I got a Debian-based qemu-user-binfmt_misc-based image > working but that was very brittle as well because in the end it also > needed to bootstrap the necessary components from source.
I think there's been some effort to make debian easier to bootstrap for new architectures, but I don't know current state. Gnu guix people are also taking bootstrap very seriously. > So as it stands I cannot offer any improved CI for armeb that's > maintainable with reasonable effort. Then you (or other volunteers with interest in armeb) needs to do manual tests of Nettle from time to time, to keep it in working shape. > On the other hand: The armeb asm changes (for the most part) are so > symmetric that any breakage would likely affect both armeb and armel. There's been very few changes to the arm files since you contributed the armeb fixes (seems to be two years ago). But whenever there's some new code or larger rewrites there, it's likely that armeb will be broken in the process. Testing, be that ci or more manual, is essential. Regards, /Niels -- Niels Möller. PGP-encrypted email is preferred. Keyid 368C6677. Internet email is subject to wholesale government surveillance. _______________________________________________ nettle-bugs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lysator.liu.se/mailman/listinfo/nettle-bugs
