On 06/12/2014 01:27 AM, thus Karanbir Singh spake:
Hi,
Hi,
I'd like to try and see if we can get a secondary arch sort of effort underway to build and deliver a PowerPC ( power7 ? ) distro based on the CentOS-7.
Power hardware is hard to come by, and we're going to mostly bootstrap from the powerpc community resources hosted at OSUOSL - but we do have enough resources to get the buildsystem up and keep it running for the ppc64 and ppc tree's. To complement this, we also have a power7 machine for the time being, on loan from a sponsor. But its future is uncertain, we might only have it for another 6 months. The resouces at OSL should, however, persist.
at the moment I can provide a Power5+ machine (besides that, an older IntelliStation 275, which features a Power4+ and thus might be plain too old), with perspectively another Power6+-based machine, soon.
Also, as most people on this list will realise - there is quite a lot of momentum inside the project, so the existing contributors dont have enough time to contribute towards another arch as well, so the effort to run this will need to come from the community.
So the purpose of my email is two fold, (1) is there enough community interest to undertake this effort ?
I think so. The Fedora ppc-Port is humming along very nicely.
and (2) are there enough community folks willing to put in the time to make it happen. Ideally some of you lot will have local hardware to test and qa the builds as well.
I can provide rack space and the machines I have, including access via console for selected users. Furthermore, I could provide rack space and unlimited traffic for any machine of decent size that would be placed here, if needed.
Last year I started to rebuild RHEL 6 SRPMs on my Power5+ machine, however, due to lack of spare time, I came to a point where efforts stopped.
Regards,
Best,
Timo