Hi! Mathieu Othacehe <othac...@gnu.org> skribis:
>> I think the status quo of 64-bit ARM for us is untenable. The emulated >> builds cause mass failures that can't be reproduced on real hardware. >> There is a growing demand for this platform among hobbyists and hackers >> who we could convert to Guix contributors! > > Following discussions that happened on Monday, I limited the number of > Berlin workers emulating aarch64 builds by half (see > abfb17bfec0ba41399fb60e91aa0e98087fab469 on maintenance). > > I also raised the number of Cuirass remote workers by machines to four > (see a5df328e5c833ca2d28105280484626bf4c1adb1 on maintenance). > > Thanks to Ricardo support I was able to setup a Wireguard tunnel between > berlin and the overdrive1. It seems to work pretty well and > https://ci.guix.gnu.org/workers shows that it is building some packages. > > I plan to connect the remaining overdrive machines, 2 at Tobias and 1 at > Andreas places. If this model of connecting build nodes through VPN > works sustainably, connecting more ARM workstations hosted at individual > could be a way to proceed. Yay, thanks Ricardo & people at the MDC, and thank you! In machines-for-berlin.scm, there’s also a couple of ARMv7 SBCs that, while slow (no argument here), are helpful. Do you think these could be re-connected as well? Thanks, Ludo’.
