On 12/06/14 01:27, Karanbir Singh wrote: > 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. Yeah, that's something we discussed already several times, and some people even noticed the #centos-ppc channel on Freenode .. :-) > > 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. So the goal would be to have a "secondary arch" support, but even that can be divided into two things : ppc64 and ppc. ppc64 is the default target (for quite some time) upstream, but I expect the ppc part being the most difficult one to rebuild (with all the different patches and optimization even for Power6+ - depending on the release -) > > 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. That's true, so "let's surf on the wave" .... > > So the purpose of my email is two fold, (1) is there enough community > interest to undertake this effort ? 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. > > Regards, > -- Fabian Arrotin gpg key: 56BEC54E | twitter: @arrfab