[Numpy-discussion] PowerPC testing servers

[Matthew Brett]

On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 6:53 PM, Sandro Tosi <morph at debian.org> wrote:
>> A recent post to the wheel-builders mailing list pointed out some
>> links to places providing free PowerPC hosting for open source
>> projects, if they agree to a submitted request:
>
> The debian project has some powerpc machines (and we still build numpy
> on those boxes when i upload a new revision to our archives) and they
> also have hosts dedicated to let debian developers login and debug
> issues with their packages on that architecture. I can sponsor access
> to those machines for some of you, but it is not a place where you can
> host a CI instance.
>
> Just keep it in mind more broadly than powerpc, f.e. these are all the
> archs where numpy was built after the last upload
> https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=python-numpy&suite=unstable
> (the grayed out archs are the ones non release critical, so packages
> are built as best effort and if missing is not a big deal)

Numpy master now passes all tests on PPC64el.  Still a couple of
remaining failures for PPC64 (big-endian):

* https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/8566
* https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues/8325

Cheers,

Matthew