On Mittwoch, 5. Februar 2020, 11:34:00 CET Guillaume Gardet wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Adrian Schröter <[email protected]> > > Sent: 05 February 2020 11:16 > > To: [email protected]; Guillaume Gardet > > <[email protected]> > > Cc: Andreas Färber <[email protected]>; [email protected]; nd <[email protected]> > > Subject: [opensuse-arm] Re: New 32-bit Arm support needed for future OBS > > builds > > > > On Mittwoch, 5. Februar 2020, 11:16:02 CET Guillaume Gardet wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > As you may know, OBS has a low number of 32-bit Arm capable workers. > > > Some Arm servers are AArch64 only and some are still supporting 32-bit > > > mode. > > > > > > The thing is new AArch64 SoC (Arm Neoverse N1) will still have the > > > ability to run > > Arm 32-bit code, but only for user space (not for kernel anymore). > > > So, we could still build for 32-bit Arm with those kind of machines, but > > > our > > current setup (qemu/kvm in 32-bit mode) will not work anymore. > > > > > > Here are the solutions which could be used: > > > * 64-bit qemu (with a 64-bit kernel) with armv6/armv7 rootfs > > > * 32-bit containers on aarch64 (qemu) host > > > * qemu without kvm: will probably be too slow > > > > > > I do not know how much work it would require to support one of those > > solutions and how many packages will be confused by a 64-bit kernel. > > > > I will object against the "without KVM" approach as OBS admin, since it > > means > > you can take over the worker. > > So, against qemu without KVM (we did that in the past for armv6 on x86_64 > machines, IIRC) and against containers as well?
armv6 was qemu inside KVM. That is a possible way. containers are not really desired security wise as well. Keep in mind that a breakage here is not only affecting the maybe-not-so-much-important armv6 distro, but really all builds in OBS. > > > > when you speak about qemu, you speak about user or system emulator? > > System emulator. k, will not be a very fast approach, but you know that :) -- Adrian Schroeter <[email protected]> Build Infrastructure Project Manager SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany (HRB 247165, AG München), Geschäftsführer: Felix Imendörffer -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] To contact the owner, e-mail: [email protected]
