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

[CM Graff]

Sorry about the double post. my monitor is cracked and my connection
is slow. I'll get it fixed soon.

Graff

On 11/14/18, CM Graff <cm0graff at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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