Re: Test machines for s390x?
On Thu, 2020-08-06 at 13:42 -0400, Robbie Harwood wrote:
Elliott Sales de Andrade <quantum.analyst(a)gmail.com> writes:
> Hi,
>
> Now that ppc64 is gone, s390x is the only big-endian architecture
> left. Bugs around endianness are not usually difficult to fix, _if_ I
> can debug it and see where exactly the problem is. However, this
> requires a tedious guess-a-patch, try a scratch build, check the
> result, rinse and repeat.
>
> Mock (with --forcearch) is completely useless for this. The programs
> just crash during the build in such a way that I can't even use
> `catchsegv`, and gdb is unusable in the container. And besides, the
> programs don't actually crash on real s390x anyway..
>
> Just like we have test machines for other less used architectures [1],
> I am wondering if there is some way we can spin up a test machine for
> s390x?
>
> [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Machine_Resources_For_Package_Maintai...
It's very strange to me that having test hardware available isn't a
requirement for being a Primary architecture, or for that architecture
being present in koji. IMO we should change that going forward.
s390x isn't a primary arch. It's an alternative arch.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures
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