Re: Have we become too Intel x64 centered?

From: René Ferdinand Rivera Morell (grafikrobot_at_[hidden])
Date: 2021-01-24 20:25:12

On Sun, Jan 24, 2021 at 8:24 AM Niall Douglas via Boost <
boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> On 24/01/2021 09:44, John Maddock via Boost wrote:
>
> >> Github Actions is a convenience wrap of Azure Pipelines. You can use
> >> Azure Pipelines directly if you wish.
> >>
> >> Azure Pipelines is free for open source projects and it comes with
> >> runners for:
> >>
> >> - Windows Server 2019 x86/x64/ARM/ARM64
> >> - Windows Server 2016 x86/x64/ARM/ARM64
> >> - Ubuntu 20.04 x86/x64/ARM/ARM64
> >> - Ubuntu 18.04 x64
> >> - Ubuntu 16.04 x64
> >> - Mac OS X 10.14 x64
> >> - Mac OS X 10.15 x64
> >
> > Even with the help of a famous-web-search-engine I couldn't find that
> > information anywhere on the Azure website... just saying.
>
> It was composed by me from multiple sources, including personal
> experience of programming GA and submitting pull requests for AP-based
> CI open source projects.
>

What Niall failed to mention is that the ARM architectures are not for
Microsoft hosted agents. Here's what the very minimal docs <
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/release-notes/2020/sprint-171-update#additional-agent-platform-arm64>
says about it:

You can now run your self-hosted agents on Linux/ARM64. We added
> Linux/ARM64 to the list of supported platforms for the Azure Pipelines
> agent. Although the code changes were minimal, a lot of behind-the-scenes
> work had to be completed first, and we're excited to announce its release!
>

For Microsoft hosted agents, which is what most of us are interested in,
you only get x64 (not even pure x86). As Sam Darwin referenced in his blog
post I have an always in-progress CI test bed for C++ that people can use
to get started with various cloud CI providers <
https://github.com/bfgroup/ci_playground>. I'll see if I can find non-x64
support in something out there (other than Travis).

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