Re: Let's include powerpc64le-linux in the next release (was: Re: Release on April 18th?)

[Léo Le Bouter]

On Tue, 2021-03-16 at 09:08 +0200, Efraim Flashner wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 09:03:04PM -0700, Chris Marusich wrote:
> > How shall we build the binary tarball for the release?  Of course,
> > anybody with a copy of the (source) release tarball can build their
> > own
> > guix binary by invoking "make guix-binary.powerpc64le-linux.tar.xz"
> > themselves.  However, for convenience, it would be nice to provide
> > a
> > pre-built binary if possible.  Shall I build this myself when the
> > time
> > comes, or would people prefer to do it a different way?
> > 
> 
> When aarch64 support was very new I gave ludo access to my board and
> he
> offloaded the build to it.
> 
> 

We have one ppc64le VM from OSUOSL which would qualify as "GNU Guix
owned" that nckx, myself, Efraim and Vincent Legoll have access to, so
we should definitely use that. We will be working into having that VM
added into Cuirass CI as soon as possible after merge into master too.

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