(splitting up answers again...) Roland Clobus <[email protected]> writes:
>> I would like to add riscv64 and ppc64el support. I saw a riscv64 merge >> request. What is the status on adding that? > > At DebConf25 in Brest I got the impression that RISC-V hardware is > unfortunately currently not powerful enough to run a full-blown > desktop environment (I might be wrong). I have some HiFive Premier P550 machines running Ubuntu, and it came up with GNOME when I got it, and was fairly usable from what I could tell. > I haven't heard about ppc64el support yet; would that kind of hardware > be suitable to running a desktop environment like GNOME? I have some Raptor Talos II machines from https://raptorcs.com/ and even the less performant Blackbird seems to be used as a GNOME desktop, although I mostly use them in text mode. https://www.talospace.com/2024/11/fedora-41-mini-review-on-blackbird-and.html https://www.talospace.com/2025/08/debian-13-trixie.html >> Would sponsoring you with riscv64/ppc64el OpenQA hardware make this >> easier? I could setup a VM and give a SSH root key, but alas I do not >> know anything about OpenQA. > > Only if that hardware is actually running natively, not using > e.g. qemu-system-PLATFORM to emulate the hardware, as emulation will > be terribly slow. > Such hardware needs to be pretty powerful, since building live images > is rather I/O intensive, whereas doing functionality tests with openQA > is rather memory intensive. I think the Talos II could handle that, I have one host with 18 cores, 128GB and NVME available for experimentation. It would have to be in a VM though, since I use the machine for other things to (e.g., it is a Guix ppc64el build server) but the VM is accelerated. Is access to hardware a limitor for arm64 too? I have Supermicro ARS-110M-NR with a 128 core Ampere Altra Max, although performant arm64 hardware is readily available at many VPS hosting sites (e.g., Hetzner) cheaply which is probably easier to access. /Simon
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