F20 System Wide Change: ARM as primary Architecture

[Cole Robinson]

On 07/10/2013 05:34 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-07-10 at 09:46 -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
>> On Tue, 9 Jul 2013 22:36:39 +0100
>> Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 10:11 PM, Till Maas <opensource at till.name>
>>> wrote:
>>
>> ...snip...
>>
>>>> test instances for maintainers as described here:
>>>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Machine_Resources_For_Package_Maintainers
>>>
>>> I've never seen the above before.
>>>
>>> There's instances available to QA
>>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/qa-machines
>>
>> I was working on adding 2 more SOC's for packagers earlier this week. 
>>
>> I wanted to see how much call there was for these... should I try and
>> make them accessable by all packagers? Or just have a group and
>> interested people could be added to that group?
> 
> They're probably useful for update testing, but I don't think they're
> much use for release validation, since that generally equates to testing
> deployment, which you can't really do from an ssh session.
> 

FWIW I'll be proposing (likely tomorrow) an F20 feature/change for ARM virt on
x86, which will track the missing libvirt/virt-manager/etc bits needed to run
Fedora ARM in a VM on x86 using standard tools. Hopefully that helps here.

- Cole