Frédéric Bonnard <frediz@debian.org> writes: > Hi Philip, > > I see you work on openqa for debian on x86 and I was wondering what > needs to be done to have tests being run on ppc64el which I'm interested in. > Depending on the manpower/hardware it requires, I may help. Great :-) I am very interested in getting other architectures to work. I have tried a couple of times with arm64 (emulated with qemu) but didn't get it to work because of the way that OpenQA uses the first serial port combined with features of our d-i arm64 builds and perhaps what qemu is willing to emulate. I don't know enough about arm64 to be certain where to best fix that -- it's clearly fixable, but I chose to concentrate on other things for the moment. If you're able to provide the knowledge to get ppc64el working, either emulated under qemu, or probably better by running an OpenQA worker on real ppc64el, that would be a big step forward. The main issue with openqa.debian.net at the moment is that it's a bit short of disk space, which means that I end up having to juggle the test jobs, and deleting the artefacts rather too soon -- that might make things a little annoying (having more architectures means having more .iso images on the disk, so will make that a bit worse). The packages for OpenQA are not currently in Debian (I'm working on it), but it is installed from packages on openqa.d.n (using a personal repo) so I guess it shouldn't be too hard to make ppc64el openqa-worker packages, if you have somewhere to run a ppc64el worker. So far, I've only been running the workers on the same machine as the main software, so I would guess that we may bump into issues with running external workers, but that's how OpenQA normally runs, so it should be fine in the end. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/ http://ftp.uk.debian.org/ |(| Hugo-Klemm-Strasse 34, 21075 Hamburg, GERMANY
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