hope help reproducible-build to support Debian riscv64 arch

[Bo YU]

Hi,
On Mon, May 23, 2022 at 10:42:44AM +0200, Mattia Rizzolo wrote:
>Hi Bo YU,
>
>On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 12:21:42PM +0800, Bo YU wrote:
>> On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 4:00 AM Chris Lamb
>> <chris at reproducible-builds.org> wrote:
>> > I'm not involved in the day-to-day of maintaining the testing
>> > framework so I'll have to leave a canonical reply to those who do. But
>> > we are definitely interested in supporting more architectures in
>> > theory, especially ones that a quite different to the ones we support
>> > today.
>
>ACK, I think we would totally be interested in adding riscv!
>
>> > In terms of the technical requirements, clearly we would need enough
>> > RISC-V machines for use as builders and they would need to be fairly
>> > powerful too. I'm not sure about numbers here, and whether virtual
>> > machines could work; there are some variations we test for that might
>> > need access to the bare metal...
>>
>> Ok, glad to know these facts.  If there are any riscv hardware
>> resources available here,
>> I will update here and maybe need you or other r-b people to help setup it:)
>
>To give you you an idea of how much power we need, see here where there
>is a list of the current machines:
>https://jenkins.debian.net/userContent/thanks.html, with that much we
>are hanging on, and we don't really have much spare resources, so we'd
>need something on a similar scale.

Great! But I have to confirm again, if we build riscv64 Debian packages for t.r-b.o
, we need similar scale VM(amd64) firstly? I mean, the real riscv64
hardware board is not considered here for the time being.

The VM resources should be available there.

Bo

>
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