From 6df2bcc7565ce7831418eb152077f4d8c0d4cf30 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Andreas=20K=2E=20H=C3=BCttel?= Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2021 00:26:34 +0200 Subject: Add post about expanded releng download options MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Signed-off-by: Andreas K. Hüttel --- _posts/2021-07-20-more-downloads.md | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 41 insertions(+) create mode 100644 _posts/2021-07-20-more-downloads.md diff --git a/_posts/2021-07-20-more-downloads.md b/_posts/2021-07-20-more-downloads.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..457bdb7 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2021-07-20-more-downloads.md @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ +--- +title: 'Additional stage downloads for amd64, ppc, x86, arm available' +--- + + + Gentoo logo + + +Following some technical reorganization and the introduction of new hardware, +the [Gentoo Release Engineering team](https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:RelEng) is happy to offer +a much-expanded set of [stage files for download](https://www.gentoo.org/downloads/). Highlights are +in particular the inclusion of [musl](https://musl.libc.org/)-based stages and of POWER9-optimized +ppc64 downloads, as well as additional [systemd](https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/)-based +variants for many architectures. + + +For amd64, [Hardened](https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Hardened)/SELinux stages are now +available directly from the download page, as are stages based on the lightweight C standard library +[musl](https://musl.libc.org/). Note that [musl](https://musl.libc.org/) requires using the musl overlay, +as described on the [page of the Hardened musl project](https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Hardened_musl). + +For ppc, little-endian stages optimized for the POWER9 CPU series have been added, as have +been big- and little-endian Hardened musl downloads. + +Additionally, for all of amd64, ppc64, x86, and arm, stages are now +available in both an [OpenRC](https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/OpenRC) and a +[systemd](https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/) init system / service manager variant +wherever that makes sense. + +This all has become possible via the introduction of new build hosts. The amd64, x86 +(natively), arm (via [QEMU](https://www.qemu.org/)), and riscv (via +[QEMU](https://www.qemu.org/)) archives are built on +an AMD Ryzen™ 7 3700X 8-core machine with 64GByte of RAM, located in [Hetzner](https://www.hetzner.com/)'s +Helsinki datacentre. The ppc, ppc64, and ppc64le / power9le builds are handled +by two 16-core POWER9 machines with 32GByte of RAM, provided by +[OSUOSL POWER Development Hosting](https://osuosl.org/services/powerdev/). + +Further, at the moment an arm64 (aka aarch64) machine with an 80-core Ampere Altra CPU and 256GByte of +RAM, provided by [Equinix](https://www.equinix.com/) through +the [Works On Arm program](https://www.worksonarm.com/), is being prepared for improved native arm64 and +arm support, so expect updates there soon! \ No newline at end of file -- cgit v1.2.3