ARM Builders

[marcoceppi]

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[ghost]

Is this only related to the builder or also the images generated themselves ?
Edit : also any new ETA, milestone where F39 40 is out (simply to have a status update :) )

[pfiaux]

Hello, I heard about bluefin recently and was curious about arm support so I ended up here. Is this the starting point to track for arm64 support to make it to bluefin/other images?

Looking around I'm guessing this is about adding arm support in the github actions? I saw this draft which seems to attempt that: #524

I also saw that github recently (September 3, 2024) announced "arm64 Linux and Windows runners are now generally available"
https://github.blog/changelog/2024-09-03-github-actions-arm64-linux-and-windows-runners-are-now-generally-available/ the PR draft above is from March so they might not have been available yet.

[marcoceppi]

This is certainly the place to watch for updates. When we embarked upon this venture last year we had to work though a lot of infrastructure building and it eventually became less of a priority. I'll defer to @EyeCantCU who opened that draft PR if they have a more recent update.

[EyeCantCU]

@pfiaux they're generally available for enterprise and team plans but not quite yet for open source projects. As soon as they are, I'm happy to resume work here. I've also been considering a self hosted runner for our use

[p5]

ARM runners are now available for free in public repos, so we are good to proceed on this!
Upstream is now pushing (real) ARM images too, which was another blocker.

I would like us to standardise on our build workflows across Bluefin/Aurora/Bazzite/Ucore/Kernel Cache/Akmods/Config to reduce the amount of duplication needed to enable ARM images and in future, zstd:chunked.

I've made a PoC on this standardisation a little while ago, but since then there has been a lot of changes across different repos - such as running builds via Just scripts - so this may need some rethinking.

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The way we will need to perform these builds are as follows:

Job 1 (parallel): Build AMD64
Job 2 (parallel): Build ARM64
Job 3 (requires Job 1 and Job 2): Create & push a Podman image manifest and add the images created via the ARM/AMD jobs

[tulilirockz]

Hello everyone, this might be of interest for the ARM builds too https://github.com/fedora-asahi-atomic-remix/images