[CentOS-devel] CentOS-7 / powerpc LE bring up

Thu Oct 15 09:36:05 UTC 2015
Takashi Ohsawa <bodtz.bigdad at gmail.com>

Hi,
I plan to be able to use IBM S812LC based on technologies contributed by
OpenPOWER Foundation in early November.  I can try to install CentOS for
Power to S812LC and feedback the result.

2015-09-29 0:02 GMT+09:00 Aaron Sullivan <aaron.sullivan at rackspace.com>:

> Awesome.  We're looking forward to giving this a spin on Barreleye.
>
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> centos-devel-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Fabian Arrotin
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> On 25/09/15 17:49, James O'Connor wrote:
> >
> >> On Sep 23, 2015, at 11:53 AM, James O'Connor
> >> <jpoc at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>> On Sep 18, 2015, at 12:27 PM, James O'Connor
> >>> <jpoc at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> As of last night, the minimal c7.01.01-ppc64le buildroot is complete
> >>> and I'm untangling circular dependencies in the CentOS
> >>> 7.1.1503 source rpms. I've built 700 of 2523 source packages so 27%
> >>> complete with this first pass.
> >>>
> >>> Next, I'll bootstrap java-1.7.0-openjdk and continue to loop through
> >>> ppc64le rpm builds with mock. In the next 1-2 weeks, I should have
> >>> 95+% of the source packages building for ppc64le.
> >>> At which point we can create the first CentOS 7 ppc64le VMs and
> >>> rebuild c7.01.02-ppc64le atop CentOS 7 instead of Fedora 21.
> >>>
> >>
> >> The latest CentOS 7 ppc64le tally is 1983 of 2523 source packages
> >> building or 78% complete. Hit a small snag with the atlas package not
> >> building that I didn't run into before. Thinking it may be due to the
> >> single core on the Fedora 21 builder VM. Once atlas builds, the rest
> >> the source packages should fall into line in short order.
> >> java-1.7.0-openjdk is built as are most of the apache/jpackage/maven
> >> stack.
> >>
> >
> > The atlas pthread build issue was resolved by adding multiple cores to
> > the Fedora 21 builder VM. The Centos 7 ppc64le phase1 build is
> > 97+% complete. I have built 2460 source packages, over 6400 binary
> > rpms and there shouldn't be any more circular dependencies to unwind.
> > We are ready to create the first pass CentOS 7 LE builder VMs. There
> > are at least 57 source packages in the 2523 source package list that
> > are exclusive to Intel arches.
> >
> > If someone on the centos build team would find me on irc or email, we
> > could discuss lorax version and configuration to build CentOS 7
> > ppc64le builders and tying my c7.01.01-ppc64le repository into a more
> > structured build process to generate a c7.01.02-ppc64le repository.
> >
> > In the meantime, I'll circle back and help get CentOS 7 ppc64/ppc
> > caught up to the same point as ppc64le.
> >
> > Thanks -James
>
> As an image talks more than words :
> https://twitter.com/Arrfab/status/647471456650199044
>
> Thanks James for the hard work on ppc64le .. now also time to do the same
> for ppc64 :D
>
> Happy Friday !
>
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