RFC: Page size on PPC/PPC64 builders

[David Woodhouse]

On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 12:47 -0600, Josh Boyer wrote:
> My biggest concern is that it doesn't match Fedora, which makes it
> harder for people who _do_ care to actually reproduce the issue and
> debug the problem.  Local mock builds on a Fedora PPC system would use
> 4KiB pages and would likely build/test just fine.  Reproducibility is
> fairly important IMHO.

That's a valid concern, I agree.

> If we have a ppc64 machine running a RHEL kernel for people to log into
> to do mock builds, etc my concerns are lessened slight. 

If we decide to keep the builders on 64KiB pages, then we'll definitely
have matching machines available for Fedora contributors to build/debug
on.

> But I really think we should be eating our own dog food here.

Your employer and mine also care about people who use 64KiB pages... :)

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dwmw2