782076 – catalyst 3.0.17 does not support arm64 big-endian profile

Bug 782076 - catalyst 3.0.17 does not support arm64 big-endian profile

Summary: catalyst 3.0.17 does not support arm64 big-endian profile

Status:	UNCONFIRMED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Hosted Projects
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Catalyst (show other bugs)
Hardware:	ARM64 Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Catalyst Developers

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Keywords:	PATCH

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Reported:	2021-04-11 10:29 UTC by Marcus Comstedt
Modified:	2021-11-05 07:54 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Patch to make catalyst know about big endian arm64 (arm64_be.patch,1.14 KB, patch) 2021-04-11 10:30 UTC, Marcus Comstedt	Details \| Diff
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Description Marcus Comstedt 2021-04-11 10:29:35 UTC

When trying to build a stage on big endian arm64 (profile
default/linux/arm64/17.0/big-endian), catalyst fails with
the following error:

momoka_be /opt/catalyst # catalyst -f stage1.spec
11 Apr 2021 11:39:12 CEST: NOTICE  : Loading configuration file: /etc/catalyst/catalyst.conf
11 Apr 2021 11:39:12 CEST: NOTICE  : conf_values[options] = {'seedcache', 'pkgcache', 'bindist', 'kerncache', 'autoresume', 'snapcache'}
11 Apr 2021 11:39:12 CEST: NOTICE  : Processing spec file: stage1.spec
11 Apr 2021 11:39:12 CEST: ERROR   : CatalystError: Unknown host machine type aarch64_be
momoka_be /opt/catalyst # 


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Run catalyst on an arm64 system with the big-endian profile
2.
3.
Actual Results:  
The error "Unknown host machine type" appears

Expected Results:  
Stages are built

Comment 1 Marcus Comstedt 2021-04-11 10:30:41 UTC

Created attachment 699204 [details, diff]
Patch to make catalyst know about big endian arm64

With the attached patch, stages can be built on big-endian arm64.