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

On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 1:27 AM James O'Connor <jpoc at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
wrote:

> Starting a new status thread for CentOS 7 POWER Little Endian. On Monday,
> Arrfab turned over the keys to a pairf of shiny new Fedora 21 ppc64le VMs
> running atop PowerKVM. I created a f21-ppc64le mock config and built a
> Linux from Scratch [1] toolchain with CentOS 7.1.1503 sources. This is
> necessary to jump back in time from Fedora 21 glibc-2.20 to CentOS 7
> glibc-2.17. I then proceeded to build enough ppc64le.el7 rpms with the LFS
> toolchain to construct a minimal c7.01.01-ppc64le mock buildroot.
>

Great news!

>
> 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.
>
Cool!


>
> 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.
>
> CentOS 7.1.1503 ppc64le Alpha images for the early adopters sometime after
> that.
>

Once built, we look forward to help in Beta Validation!


>
> [1] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable-systemd/
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