Stephen,
Seems that is not so easy to get S390x hardware as PPC Servers.
Thank you very much for your answer.
Regards,
Javier Romero
2018-02-20 15:01 GMT-03:00 Stephen John Smoogen smooge@gmail.com:
On 20 February 2018 at 11:42, Javier Romero xavinux@gmail.com wrote:
2018-02-20 13:21 GMT-03:00 Fabian Arrotin arrfab@centos.org:
On 20/02/18 17:14, Javier Romero wrote:
Hi all,
I see that IBM LinuxONE, provides a Z Mainframe running with Linux Red Hat, SUSE OR Ubuntu Server distros.
Do you think that could also be useful for CentOS to be another option for LinuxONE?
Maybe a a CentOS Mainframe SIG can be created to work on this.
Thanks for your attention.
Regards,
Javier Romero
Hi Javier,
That would probably be for the AltArch-SIG , already building CentOS 7 for
- IBM Power 8 (ppc64, ppc64le)
- aarch64 (aka ARMv8 , 64bits)
- armhfp (aka ARMv7 , 32bits)
- i686
But the s390 question was raised already in the past, but finding :
- people willing to bootstrap the rebuild
Well, I'm very interested on contributing with this.
- on dedicated hardware donated to the project (yeah, difficult part)
is a "challenge" :)
Is there any chance that IBM donate this hardware for the CentOS project? Think that will be also useful for that company to have another Linux distro running on their Z Systems.
I can only say from the Fedora side, that it is very complicated. IBM does not donate mainframes in the same way they may donate PPC hardware to a site. Where-ever the hardware is requires dedicated resources (water cooling, extra power conditioning) and contracts with IBM. The contracts seemed to be the longest time and I don't know what it entailed as it is lawyer stuff. There was just a long time of "we can't" then "oh we can but you will need to use this one system we have in a far away location using these methods".
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