On 06/12/2014 01:27 AM, thus Karanbir Singh spake: > Hi, 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. > > 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. at the moment I can provide a Power5+ machine (besides that, an older IntelliStation 275, which features a Power4+ and thus might be plain too old), with perspectively another Power6+-based machine, soon. > 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. > > So the purpose of my email is two fold, (1) is there enough community > interest to undertake this effort ? I think so. The Fedora ppc-Port is humming along very nicely. > 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. I can provide rack space and the machines I have, including access via console for selected users. Furthermore, I could provide rack space and unlimited traffic for any machine of decent size that would be placed here, if needed. Last year I started to rebuild RHEL 6 SRPMs on my Power5+ machine, however, due to lack of spare time, I came to a point where efforts stopped. > Regards, Best, Timo