Re: [gentoo-dev] Current state of arm and arm64 architecture in Gentoo Linux

[Mart Raudsepp]

Ühel kenal päeval, E, 30.04.2018 kell 18:11, kirjutas Robin H. Johnson:
> On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 07:39:59PM +0800, Pengcheng Xu wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm currently working on my Gentoo GSoC project (
> > https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/projects/#5132157995974656 ),
> > and
> > I'm wondering what's the current work state of Gentoo Linux's arm
> > architecture. The last stage3 tarball update date was 20161127,
> > and,
> > as it's quite dated compared to popular architectures (e.g. amd64),
> > does that mean the architecture is no longer actively maintained
> > anymore?
> >
> > And I've read about the arm64 architecture for Gentoo Linux. Is
> > that still considered experimental for now?
>
> The date of the stage3 tarball is mostly a function of lack time in
> working on the host for the automated catalyst builds.
>
> Specifically, spinning up stuff at Packet.net's ARM64 servers,
> bootstrapped in Gentoo from their Ubuntu/Debian offerings.
>
> Packages are definitely being tested & keyworded for arm64.

2016 old official stages are for arm 32bit. arm64 stages are less than
2 months old. Been working on stabilization queue, so the next built
stage would actually have updates :)

Regarding arm (where things are too outdated): there are newer
unofficial stages out there from non-developers, but official builds
have stalled.

Using those servers for arm32 stage builds could be interesting though
to get something out properly when hand-built, but I make a point of
staying hands off of arm32 (there's only so many hours in a day), so I
don't even know if it'd be anything similarly easy like x86 on amd64 hw
is.
If it is, I might be able to do the necessary commands to get it done,
when someone helps handle the issues that come up.

More details from arm64 side in a couple days hopefully, if still
needed.


Mart