[cfarm-users] Migrate away from openSUSE 42 on gcc118

[CM Graff]

Hey everyone,

Moving away from opensuse seems like an alright idea. But in my
opinion it would be better to have hardware running 1> distributions
that offer alternatives to systemd like gentoo. 2> distributions
running musl or uclibc like alpine or gentoo. Testing on musl and
uclibc offers a very rich set of possibilities for exploring POSIX
compliance. I'd also be open to the idea of freebsd, netbsd and
openbsd (respectivly) running on real hardware as these also offer
good control environments to help ensure POSIX compliance. As neat as
opensuse and fedora are,  I prefer to do my glibc based operating
system testing on debian or its derivative ubuntu.

These (debian, ubuntu, gentoo, alpine, freebsd, netbsd and openbsd)
are my intended targets for my arbitrary precision mathematics library
arbitraire (https://github.com/hlibc/arbitraire) and hlibc
(https://github.com/hlibc/hlibc) my standard C library implementation.

Graff

May there be peace and love to all of the peoples of our sacred earth
such that we have clarity to explore mathematics and science together,

cm0graff at gmail.com

On 11/13/18, Jeffrey Walton via cfarm-users
<cfarm-users at lists.tetaneutral.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 8:45 AM Martin Jambor <mjambor at suse.cz> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 12 2018, Jeffrey Walton via cfarm-users wrote:
>> >
>> > GCC118 is an openSUSE machine. openSUSE does not support ARMv8.1
>> > extensions like CRC and Crypto. Attempts to use CRC, PMULL, AES and
>> > SHA result in compile failures.
>> >
>> > Would it be possible to migrate to something newer for GCC118?
>> >
>> > I believe Fedora would be a nice choice nowadays if you want to
>> > provide a variety of OSes and support Aarch64. Fedora's DNF system
>> > upgrade works well, and I have never had a problem with distro
>> > upgrades.
>>
>> If it is enough, upgrading it to openSUSE Leap 15 should be fairly easy
>> (and I can do it if you trust me with root access).  Reinstalling a new
>> distro on these particular Seattle boards can be a bit challenging,
>> unless the local network is set up for ARM PXE boot.
>
> Thanks Martin.
>
> I forgot to mention... The farm has four Mustangs boards. The
> processors on the Mustang boards lack CRC and Crypto. openSUSE may
> make a good choice for the Mustang's since it does not support the
> extensions, either.
>
> Jeff
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