Re: Testing on ARM64 CPU architecture

[Martin Tzvetanov Grigorov <mg...@apache.org>]

Hello Atlas devs,

On 2021/03/11 13:08:44, Martin Tzvetanov Grigorov <mg...@apache.org> wrote: 
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> On 2021/02/18 13:31:57, Martin Tzvetanov Grigorov <mg...@apache.org> wrote: 
> > Hello Atlas devs,
> > 
> > More and more software deployments are being done on ARM64 architecture.
> > Recently I've tried to build Atlas on such hardware and I've found few small issues:
> > - ticket: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ATLAS-4159
> > - Pull request: https://github.com/apache/atlas/pull/120
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> The new Pull Request is https://github.com/apache/atlas/pull/128

I've also uploaded the diff to https://reviews.apache.org/r/73347/
Kindly requesting you to review it!
Thank you!

Regards,
Martin

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> Regards,
> Martin
> 
> > 
> > Atlas itself didn't have any problems but its dependencies needed to be updated to new versions with improvements for ARM64.
> > 
> > Atlas uses Apache Jenkins (https://builds.apache.org/job/Atlas/, currently missing) as CI.
> > At the moment only TravisCI and DroneIO provide ARM64 workers which are easy to be used.
> > For Jenkins one has to provide an agent running on such hardware.
> > 
> > My employer is willing to donate a VM that could be used for such ARM64 Jenkins agent if Atlas community would find it useful, e.g. to prevent ARM64 regressions in the future.
> > For the moment I am aware that Apache Hadoop and Apache Kafka projects use such VMs.
> > 
> > Please let me know if you are interested and I will contact Apache Infra team to set it up!
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Martin
> > 
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