PPC/PPC64 disabled in Koji for dist-f13

Jeff Garzik jgarzik at pobox.com
Thu Oct 1 03:51:36 UTC 2009


On 09/30/2009 11:12 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Again, would you rather debug glibc now, or later?  "Not at all" is not
> an option.
[...]
> Well, I'm by no means wedded to ppc64; I just want *some* BE
> architecture in the primary set.  Maybe a reasonable compromise would be
> to include ppc but not ppc64?  That would cover basic BE portability
> issues, if not the occasional BE-and-64-bit bug.  And it would halve the
> present workload of the PPC builders, which might help the build time
> issue.

Seconded on all points.

If sheer number of build machines is an issue, one could spin up a qemu 
running ppc on a non-ppc box.  One does reach a tipping point where a 
modern machine + emulation winds up beating a native machine, as 
progress marches on, too.

	Jeff





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