2018-02-20 13:21 GMT-03:00 Fabian Arrotin arrfab@centos.org:

On 20/02/18 17:14, Javier Romero wrote:

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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.

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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:

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2018-02-20 13:21 GMT-03:00 Fabian Arrotin arrfab@centos.org:

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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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