[CentOS-devel] Centos 7 and powerpc

Tue Feb 4 22:43:01 UTC 2014
Doron Fediuck <dfediuck at redhat.com>


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> From: "Bryson Lee" <Bryson.Lee at sslmda.com>
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> Subject: Re: [CentOS-devel] Centos 7 and powerpc
> 
> Hi Karanbir,
> 
> Thanks for the info.
> 
> > > We also have a vested interest in the ppc64 / ppc32 question, since
> > > our app is somewhat bound into the 32-bit arch and the 64-bit kernel /
> > > 32-bit userland structure we inherit from F12.
> >
> > does the ppc userland in rhel7b1 cover the scope ? or are you saying you
> > need ( and are therefore offering to help build ) a larger ppc cover ?
> >
> 
> I think rhel7b1 has enough to cover us, although there are some (to me)
> puzzling omissions; boost-python.ppc and python-libs.ppc are there, but
> python.ppc and python-devel.ppc aren't.   I'm going to do a trial build of
> our lookaside third-party "stack" against el7b1 and see if anything else
> pops up.
> 
> > Happy to accept any and all help you are able to offer ( its going to
> > mostly be
> > a case of finding some time to parse build fails and offer fix's ). Tim
> > Verhoeven has offered to also get involved and maybe even take the reins
> > of the power build process.
> 
> I'll have a look at centos-build-reports and the bld-seven repo.
> 
> Thanks again,
> 
> -Bryson
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Hi Guys,
would love to push PPC forward with the expected PPC support ovirt will have in
version 3.4 [1][2]. We have a few volunteers working on it, with most of their
work already merged.

Doron

[1] http://www.ovirt.org/Features/Engine_support_for_PPC64
[2] http://www.ovirt.org/Features/Vdsm_for_PPC64