Sorry about the double post. my monitor is cracked and my connection is slow. I'll get it fixed soon.
Graff On 11/14/18, CM Graff <cm0gr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey everyone, > > Moving away from opensuse seems like an alright idea. But in my > opinion it would be better to have hardware running 1> distributions > that offer alternatives to systemd like gentoo. 2> distributions > running musl or uclibc like alpine or gentoo. Testing on musl and > uclibc offers a very rich set of possibilities for exploring POSIX > compliance. I'd also be open to the idea of freebsd, netbsd and > openbsd (respectivly) running on real hardware as these also offer > good control environments to help ensure POSIX compliance. As neat as > opensuse and fedora are, I prefer to do my glibc based operating > system testing on debian or its derivative ubuntu. > > These (debian, ubuntu, gentoo, alpine, freebsd, netbsd and openbsd) > are my intended targets for my arbitrary precision mathematics library > arbitraire (https://github.com/hlibc/arbitraire) and hlibc > (https://github.com/hlibc/hlibc) my standard C library implementation. > > Graff > > May there be peace and love to all of the peoples of our sacred earth > such that we have clarity to explore mathematics and science together, > > cm0gr...@gmail.com > > On 11/13/18, Jeffrey Walton via cfarm-users > <cfarm-users@lists.tetaneutral.net> wrote: >> On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 8:45 AM Martin Jambor <mjam...@suse.cz> wrote: >>> >>> On Mon, Nov 12 2018, Jeffrey Walton via cfarm-users wrote: >>> > >>> > GCC118 is an openSUSE machine. openSUSE does not support ARMv8.1 >>> > extensions like CRC and Crypto. Attempts to use CRC, PMULL, AES and >>> > SHA result in compile failures. >>> > >>> > Would it be possible to migrate to something newer for GCC118? >>> > >>> > I believe Fedora would be a nice choice nowadays if you want to >>> > provide a variety of OSes and support Aarch64. Fedora's DNF system >>> > upgrade works well, and I have never had a problem with distro >>> > upgrades. >>> >>> If it is enough, upgrading it to openSUSE Leap 15 should be fairly easy >>> (and I can do it if you trust me with root access). Reinstalling a new >>> distro on these particular Seattle boards can be a bit challenging, >>> unless the local network is set up for ARM PXE boot. >> >> Thanks Martin. >> >> I forgot to mention... The farm has four Mustangs boards. The >> processors on the Mustang boards lack CRC and Crypto. openSUSE may >> make a good choice for the Mustang's since it does not support the >> extensions, either. >> >> Jeff >> _______________________________________________ >> cfarm-users mailing list >> cfarm-users@lists.tetaneutral.net >> https://lists.tetaneutral.net/listinfo/cfarm-users >> > _______________________________________________ cfarm-users mailing list cfarm-users@lists.tetaneutral.net https://lists.tetaneutral.net/listinfo/cfarm-users
