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@hawkw hawkw commented Jan 30, 2026

Presently there is a shortage of servers to run Buildomat workers for CI jobs. Fortunately, we work at a company that makes servers. So we can just make more servers. And then we can use those servers for CI. And then everyone's happy.

In order to do that, we must use the lab-2.0-gimlet Buildomat target rather than helios-2.0 or lab-2.0-opte targets. It's possible that some or all of Omicron's CI cannot easily do that due to special-cased behavior for the i86pc architecture to detect running in a dev environment. Luckily, no such behavior exists in Propolis, so (hopefully!) we can just switch our Buildomat jobs to the lab-2.0-gimlet target and (hopefully) it will Just Work. This way, we're not competing with Omicron builds for the relatively scarce non-Gimlet workers.

@hawkw hawkw requested review from iximeow and jclulow January 30, 2026 02:23
Presently there is a shortage of servers to run Buildomat workers for CI
jobs. Fortunately, we work at a company that makes servers. So we can
just make more servers. And then we can use those servers for CI. And
then everyone's happy.

In order to do that, we must use the `lab-2.0-gimlet` Buildomat target
rather than `helios-2.0` or `lab-2.0-opte` targets. It's possible that
some or all of Omicron's CI cannot easily do that due to special-cased
behavior for the `i86pc` architecture to detect running in a dev
environment. Luckily, no such behavior exists in Propolis, so
(hopefully!) we can just switch our Buildomat jobs to the
`lab-2.0-gimlet` target and (hopefully) it will Just Work. This way,
we're not competing with Omicron builds for the relatively scarce
non-Gimlet workers.
@hawkw hawkw force-pushed the eliza/use-our-computers branch from 89243be to a47c9b8 Compare January 30, 2026 02:27
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