I have access to IBM z12 and z13 hardware. Currently, I'm running RHEL6 and RHEL7 for s390x architecture.
Is is possible for me to offer compile resources for the alternate architecture of s390x? I've already recompiled many packages (EPEL for example) with great success on s390x.
It is a requirement of the CentOS community that the hardware be 'owned' by the CentOS community? It is not possible for me to make the hardware available to outside persons.
Basically, I'm offering my time to compile CentOS on Z.
Thanks, Brian
On 05/05/16 19:29, Brian Schonecker wrote:
I have access to IBM z12 and z13 hardware. Currently, I'm running RHEL6 and RHEL7 for s390x architecture.
Is is possible for me to offer compile resources for the alternate architecture of s390x? I've already recompiled many packages (EPEL for example) with great success on s390x.
perhaps. we'd need to workout what this means and how we might do the bootstraps etc. Certainly worth looking into.
It is a requirement of the CentOS community that the hardware be 'owned' by the CentOS community? It is not possible for me to make the hardware available to outside persons.
if we do this, then there needs to be some good enough assurance that the resources are going to be around for a sustained period of time. Otherwise we end up delivering an onramp to a dead end, and thats not nice.
On May 5, 2016, at 4:43 PM, Karanbir Singh mail-lists@karan.org wrote:
On 05/05/16 19:29, Brian Schonecker wrote:
I have access to IBM z12 and z13 hardware. Currently, I'm running RHEL6 and RHEL7 for s390x architecture.
Is is possible for me to offer compile resources for the alternate architecture of s390x? I've already recompiled many packages (EPEL for example) with great success on s390x.
perhaps. we'd need to workout what this means and how we might do the bootstraps etc. Certainly worth looking into.
I would be willing to help with a clean s390x/s390 port from Fedora 19 to RHEL7. I still have many of the steps fresh in my mind from the ppc64le/ppc64/ppc ports.
It is a requirement of the CentOS community that the hardware be 'owned' by the CentOS community? It is not possible for me to make the hardware available to outside persons.
if we do this, then there needs to be some good enough assurance that the resources are going to be around for a sustained period of time. Otherwise we end up delivering an onramp to a dead end, and thats not nice.
I don’t have any hardware to offer up. For true RHEL7 s390x parity we would need several z196 VMs.
%ifarch s390 s390x %if 0%{?rhel} >= 7 --with-arch=z196 --with-tune=zEC12 --enable-decimal-float \ %else
https://git.centos.org/blob/rpms!gcc.git/b4bb7ab1c74f8e1e5dc0849d4c2148b1607...
-James
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