Hi, As you may have noticed openqa.opensuse.org has some aarch64 jobs. It was quite some effort to get there but it's far from done yet.
1. Build Power At the moment there's one openQA worker running on a PPC64 host (power8). That host is fast enough to run the emulation reasonably well. To do serious tests we need real hardware with kvm though. Not just for openQA but also for OBS. The image in openQA is just the NET iso that installs from a static ftp repo from two weeks ago. The ftp tree wasn't published since then as it never finished building. Factory is moving too fast, aarch64 can't catch up. Meanwhile maybe an installation DVD could help. The limited set of packages on the DVD probably has a chance to finish in time. 2. Project Setup To get a real Tumbleweed for aarch64 the OBS setup needs to be changed: - openSUSE:Factory:ARM/_product need to become a link to openSUSE:Factory/_product. That way arm inherits the Tumbleweed version number. - openSUSE:Factory:ARM:ToTest needs to be created to hold the snapshots that go into openQA 3. Scripts The magic factory scripts (totest manager, pattern generator) need to be adjusted. Dinar did most of the heavy lifting for ppc so the scripts are now able to handle another architecture. The spots needed for aarch64 should be easy to find by searching for ppc. cu Ludwig -- (o_ Ludwig Nussel //\ V_/_ http://www.suse.de/ SUSE Linux GmbH, GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Jennifer Guild, Dilip Upmanyu, Graham Norton, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstraße 5; 90409 Nürnberg; Germany -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] To contact the owner, e-mail: [email protected]
