On 12/06/14 01:27, Karanbir Singh wrote:
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.
Yeah, that's something we discussed already several times, and some people even noticed the #centos-ppc channel on Freenode .. :-)
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.
So the goal would be to have a "secondary arch" support, but even that can be divided into two things : ppc64 and ppc. ppc64 is the default target (for quite some time) upstream, but I expect the ppc part being the most difficult one to rebuild (with all the different patches and optimization even for Power6+ - depending on the release -)
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.
That's true, so "let's surf on the wave" ....
So the purpose of my email is two fold, (1) is there enough community interest to undertake this effort ? 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.
Regards,