On 2023-07-17 15:51 -0600, Cordell Bloor wrote: > the Tensile build times out after two and a half hours AIUI the roc* stuff is all about using GPU accelerators. So when these tests are run on our buildds (which in the arm64 case do not have AMD GPU cards fitted SFAIK (do the amd64 buildds have them?). What is actually being tested? Presumably fallback CPU-only paths? (which will be most of why it's very slow). There is a whole range of GPU and NPU acceleration hardware out there, some of which is arch-specific, and some of which isn't. This is particularly relevant to debian-science and debian-ai packages, and we are presumably currently very limited in what we can test as a distro? I wonder what subset of the possible combinations we should be trying to test, and what facilities exist for us to do that testing on. It's not practical for debian's buildds to cover very much of this space, but perhaps 3rd parties could (or already do) provide hardware we could use for testing? e.g if there is currently no place for random OSS projects to test things like GPUs on arm64 then ARM could probably be persuaded to do something about that. It might take a while, but knowing what was actually useful would be a good start. Wookey -- Principal hats: Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/
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