[Nix-dev] Aarch64!

[Bas van Dijk]

Great work!

Would it be possible to also build for armv7 systems?

Bas

On 9 March 2017 at 22:14, Graham Christensen <graham at grahamc.com> wrote:

>
> Vladimír's email reminded me I hadn't said anything about aarch64...
> but, many people already know :)
>
> As of yesterday, with the excellent help of Tuomas (Dezgeg) and others,
> plus the generous donation of 96-core Cavium ThunderX machines from
> Packet.net, we now have Nixpkgs unstable building Aarch64 packages!
>
> These should run just fine on Raspberry Pi 3, and of course,
> Packet.net's ThunderX machines.
>
> I added it first to nixpkgs only in order to "smoke test" the deployment
> without interrupting NixOS. I have no objection to moving it over to
> NixOS itself, the machines should be able to run the NixOS tests just
> fine.
>
> Currently, we only have one Aarch64 builder. We can add more, and having
> Hydra building stdenv will make the provisioning process much faster.
>
> Let us all celebrate this big milestone, and push forward to NixOS on
> ARM!
>
> Thank you to Tuomas, nathan7, Eelco, Packet.net, and all the ARM
> contributors for making this possible.
>
> Thank you,
> Graham Christensen
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