Re: Adding more ppc64 buildds from the POWER cloud

2016-04-05 Thread Breno Leitao
Hello Adrian, On 04/04/2016 06:57 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: As long as Breno is fine with the fact, there is nothing from Debian's side that is going to stop you ;-). I don't see a problem also. By the way, the machine is now ready and you have sudo in the machine. Feel free to do

Re: Adding more ppc64 buildds from the POWER cloud

2016-04-05 Thread Gabriel Paubert
On Tue, Apr 05, 2016 at 08:32:28AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Tue, Apr 05, 2016 at 10:51:37AM +0200, Gabriel Paubert wrote: > > What is really missing in ppc-land is a variant which uses 32 bit > > addresses but otherwise knows that general purposes registers are > > 64 bit wide and can be

Re: Adding more ppc64 buildds from the POWER cloud

2016-04-05 Thread Milan Kupcevic
On 04/05/2016 08:28 AM, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Tue, Apr 05, 2016 at 08:19:13AM +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: >> I was recently told by aurel32@d.o that ppc32 kernels do not run on a >> ppc64 CPU. So if one wants to run a Debian kernel [1], we are pretty >> much required to be running a ppc6

Re: Adding more ppc64 buildds from the POWER cloud

2016-04-05 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Apr 05, 2016 at 10:51:37AM +0200, Gabriel Paubert wrote: > What is really missing in ppc-land is a variant which uses 32 bit > addresses but otherwise knows that general purposes registers are > 64 bit wide and can be used as such, i.e., an alternative 32 bit ABI > which can only run on 64

Re: Adding more ppc64 buildds from the POWER cloud

2016-04-05 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Apr 05, 2016 at 08:19:13AM +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > I was recently told by aurel32@d.o that ppc32 kernels do not run on a > ppc64 CPU. So if one wants to run a Debian kernel [1], we are pretty > much required to be running a ppc64 kernel. > This is the current situation with partch

Re: Adding more ppc64 buildds from the POWER cloud

2016-04-05 Thread Gabriel Paubert
On Mon, Apr 04, 2016 at 05:51:10PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Mon, Apr 04, 2016 at 05:39:48PM -0300, Breno Leitao wrote: > > Ok, since we will not even have VMX, I understand that we might not need a > > POWER8, i.e, we can pursue initially with a POWER7. Does it make sense? > > > > Other

Re: Adding more ppc64 buildds from the POWER cloud

2016-04-05 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 04/05/2016 10:51 AM, Gabriel Paubert wrote: > What is really missing in ppc-land is a variant which uses 32 bit > addresses but otherwise knows that general purposes registers are > 64 bit wide and can be used as such, i.e., an alternative 32 bit ABI > which can only run on 64 bit processors and

Re: Adding more ppc64 buildds from the POWER cloud

2016-04-04 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 11:51 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Mon, Apr 04, 2016 at 05:39:48PM -0300, Breno Leitao wrote: >> Ok, since we will not even have VMX, I understand that we might not need a >> POWER8, i.e, we can pursue initially with a POWER7. Does it make sense? >> >> Other than that, I

Re: Adding more ppc64 buildds from the POWER cloud

2016-04-04 Thread Hiroyuki Yamamoto
Hi, Adrian, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> If it is not a problem that I am not a DD, >> I can help to set-up and maintain buildds. > > Don't worry, from Debian's side, it's not a requirement to be a > DD at all. As long as Breno is fine with the fact, there is nothing > from Debian's side

Re: Adding more ppc64 buildds from the POWER cloud

2016-04-04 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Hiroyuki! On 04/04/2016 11:35 PM, Hiroyuki Yamamoto wrote: >> You can just install a regular Debian Jessie with powerpc. As long as >> the kernel is "ppc64", e.g. 64-bit-capable, I can easily set up ppc64 >> buildds. > >> Provided that Hiroyuki is ok with that, I would go ahead, set up the >>

Re: Adding more ppc64 buildds from the POWER cloud

2016-04-04 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Apr 04, 2016 at 05:39:48PM -0300, Breno Leitao wrote: > Ok, since we will not even have VMX, I understand that we might not need a > POWER8, i.e, we can pursue initially with a POWER7. Does it make sense? > > Other than that, I will create a entry for you on one machine. But I am > wonderi

Re: Adding more ppc64 buildds from the POWER cloud

2016-04-04 Thread Hiroyuki Yamamoto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Thanks, Adrian and Breno, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> Other than that, I will create a entry for you on one machine. But I am >> wondering if we should go with powerpc arhc other than ppc64, since I am >> not sure how stable is ppc64 right n

Re: Adding more ppc64 buildds from the POWER cloud

2016-04-04 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Breno! On 04/04/2016 10:39 PM, Breno Leitao wrote: > On 04/03/2016 06:35 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> Since the POWER8 machines are very powerful, it would probably make >> sense to create multiple buildd instances on the single cloud instance >> but that depends on the availability

Re: Adding more ppc64 buildds from the POWER cloud

2016-04-04 Thread Breno Leitao
hi Adrian, On 04/03/2016 06:35 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Since the POWER8 machines are very powerful, it would probably make sense to create multiple buildd instances on the single cloud instance but that depends on the availability of cores and memory. Ok, since we will not even ha

Re: Adding more ppc64 buildds from the POWER cloud

2016-04-03 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Breno! On 04/03/2016 10:59 PM, Breno Leitao wrote: > Yes. I am glad to help on this effort. We still have that "POWER minicloud" > program and I think we can deploy a ppc64 image to be used as a build server > (buildd). That's great news, awesome :). > On the other hand, the DSA has two POWER

Re: Adding more ppc64 buildds from the POWER cloud

2016-04-03 Thread Breno Leitao
Hello Adrian, On 04/02/2016 06:53 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Since I think that the buildds for the ppc64 (Big Endian) port are a bit > underpowered and actually have to rebuild the whole archive now (due > to the fact they want rebuild everything with Altivec disabled), I was > wonder

Adding more ppc64 buildds from the POWER cloud

2016-04-02 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Breno! I just came across your post from last June [1] where you offered ppc64 and ppc64el cloud instances for Debian people. Since I think that the buildds for the ppc64 (Big Endian) port are a bit underpowered and actually have to rebuild the whole archive now (due to the fact they want rebu