RFC: Page size on PPC/PPC64 builders

[Josh Boyer]

On Sun, 02 Mar 2008 21:46:53 -0600
Eric Sandeen <sandeen at redhat.com> wrote:

> Tom Lane wrote:
> 
> > As for the other points, if we can't provide (and document) the
> > ability for developers to test on a secondary arch, that arch
> > needs to be removed from Fedora completely.  It's useless to
> > expect developers to magically fix things they can't debug.
> 
> Hm, good point.  My initial reaction to all this was "building on other
> arches finds good bugs" and I thought back fondly on my e2fsprogs bug
> from last week... then I rembered that I, too, have a magic incantation
> to invoke a ppc login somewhere and without that I would have been
> stumped a lot longer.  If most fedora devels can't get access to one of
> these boxes, it's a problem, isn't it...  :(

It's not a problem at all.  David has repeatedly said, on this list, if
you email him a public ssh key he will give you an account on a ppc64
box.

There might be another alternative soon, but it's beyond my control so
I'm not going to elaborate on it.

josh