Hi all,
For CentOS infra needs, we have some ppc64le hosts deployed (Power9 and
soon Power10) but the existing machines are still relying on RHEL8, as
it was the last enterprise distro version in the RH ecosystem to provide
kvm host feature.
This was dropped after in the RHEL9 version (and still disabled in
Stream10 and so for future el10)
I had a look and at least I know that Almalinux people have enabled back
what was missing, and so be able to use it as kvm host, and then deploy
as usual other guests on top.
I'd like to propose to join myself the SIG and create some tags, just
for ppc64le, starting with Stream 10 and eventually (time permitting but
not the initial goal) do the same for Stream 9/RHEL9.
Asking so the chair, Sandro, if he minds me (from the Infra SIG
perspective) joining the SIG and start some scratch builds as PoC and
then promote builds on the mirror network.
As said, as we (CentOS Infra) would rely on these builds, we'd maintain
these as long as we'd need ppc64le support in our infra, which we don't
consider to drop anytime soon.
Opinions, feedback, thoughts ?
PS : trying in parallel to reach out to some folks at the Almalinux
side, to see if working on patches can be done in parallel
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Fabian Arrotin
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