On Mon, May 16, 2022 at 04:50:29PM +0200, Cédric Le Goater wrote: > On 5/16/22 15:55, Peter Maydell wrote: > > 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. > > Since the P8 have been around (~2014), the focus is really on LE. > I think debian is the last distro still providing BE binaries. > But no iso, you have to start with a debian 1O and do the upgrade.
If even Debian 11 has stopped providing ppc64be images, then the end really is nigh. We still support Debian 10 as a target in our platform support matrix until Debin 12 comes out in mid/late 2023. So IMHO we've got at most 1 year left of needing to worry about ppc64be targets. > > If BE PPC is fading away then that's another argument for > > living with the loss of CI coverage, I guess. > > yes. > > It would good to keep a BE host for test coverage. It doesn't have > to be ppc64be if it is too complex to maintain. IIUC, we've got s390x giving BE coverage right now, at least for certain configure option combinations. > I can help on setting up a debian BE sid vm on the above IBM POWER8 > 8284-22A system if you need to. I have an image ready to use. If we have a means to run CI for the next ~1 year great, but it doesn't seem like worth investing masses of resources into it. With regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :|
