On Mon, 16 May 2022 at 14:51, Cédric Le Goater <c...@kaod.org> wrote: > > On 5/16/22 14:43, Peter Maydell wrote: > > I think we can get away with just dropping ppc64be -- we have > > coverage for it as a cross-compile setup, and hopefully the > > s390x CI runner will catch the various "fails tests on big-endian host" > > issues. (Alternatively if anybody has a ppc64be machine they'd like > > to let us run a gitlab CI runner on, we could do that :-)) > > No recent HW (P8 and above) would run a PPC64 BE distro if LE is > supported by HW.
FWIW, the machine I use for ad-hoc CI is one in the gcc compile farm, which is supposedly a "IBM POWER8 8284-22A", running Debian sid. If BE PPC is fading away then that's another argument for living with the loss of CI coverage, I guess. thanks -- PMM
