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Cross-compiled powerpc64-linux bootstrap-tarballs not reproducible

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From: Efraim Flashner <efraim <at> flashner.co.il>
To: Leo Le Bouter <lle-bout <at> zaclys.net>
Cc: 41669 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>, Chris Marusich <cmmarusich <at> gmail.com>, Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>, Vincent Legoll <vincent.legoll <at> gmail.com>
Subject: bug#41669: Cross-compiled powerpc64-linux bootstrap-tarballs not reproducible
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2020 12:38:36 +0200

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On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 11:34:35AM +0100, Leo Le Bouter wrote:
> On Mon, 2020-12-14 at 12:27 +0200, Efraim Flashner wrote:
> 
> > but I wouldn't count on
> > maintaining a separate glibc for powerpc64le vs the rest of the
> > architectures.
> 
> It doesnt need to be maintained, it only needs to work in one commit on
> master and then one uses time-machine to rebuild the bootstrap binaries
> if they wish to. The make-bootstrap code is already unmaintained for
> every architecture anyway since we never rebuild bootstrap binaries
> using later GNU Guix revisions ever.

It looks like I mispoke, I meant gnu/packages/make-bootstrap.scm. If we
change glibc-for-bootstrap to inherit glibc-2.31 then the rest of the
bootstrap binaries should use that one and everything else will use the
regular glibc.

> 
> > Do you have a preference big-endian vs little endian?
> 
> I'd like both but little endian has the widest eco-system support
> especially w.r.t. to Linux drivers. Many Linux drivers have endianness
> bugs (lack of endian-safe serialization for DMA..), it's such a plague
> that sticking to little endian is just better right now. One common
> example being mpt3sas and amdgpu drivers required in some
> configurations of the Talos II system.
> 

I remember you mentioning that.

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