F20 System Wide Change: ARM as primary Architecture

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Tue, 16 Jul 2013 12:18:26 -0700
Brendan Conoboy <blc at redhat.com> wrote:

> On 07/16/2013 05:28 AM, Peter Robinson wrote:
> > All the remix images to date have been created on the users own
> > devices. If you are internal to Red Hat there's process to get
> > access to internal infrastructure...
> 
> There are 3 things I would like to add here:
> 
> 1. As Peter mentioned elsewhere in his reply, not even the ARM team
> has access to the ARM builders in PHX.  Just like we don't have
> x86_64. Access is handled by the infrastructure team, builds are
> handled by koji.  These are closed systems without remote access
> provisions.

Correct. It needs koji admin to be able to spin images for a variety of
reasons (mostly resources... disk and builder cycles and io)

> 2. Kevin Fenzi is working on setting up a limited pool 
> community-accessible ARM builders.  Join in the weekly fedora-arm 
> meeting on Wendesdays at 20:00 UTC in #fedora-meeting-1 for updates 
> about his progress (And other ARM topics).  As of last week it was
> being considered and worked on, but not immediately ready to go.

I'm waiting for a firmware update thats hopefully out soon that will
allow us to isolate some SOC's on a seperate physical network wire so
we can make sure they don't interfere with anything else. 

> 3. If you are a Red Hat employee I can provide access to ARM systems
> of the same caliber as what is in the Fedora colo.  Drop me a line
> and let me know what you need- I will make it happen.

We do already have some QA ones with more limited access, we can see
about adding you to access those if that would help?

kevin

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