On 09/18/2015 03:05 PM, Fabian Arrotin wrote: > On 18/09/15 14:42, Timo Schöler wrote: >> On 09/18/2015 02:36 PM, Akira Kuno wrote: > >> Did I miss something? From what I got during the last weeks, >> both LE and BE will be built. Especially as Karanbir stated that >> there's still much demand on support for "ancient" CPUs (such as >> Power 5): > >> http://www.spinics.net/lists/centos-devel/msg13790.html > >> As Fedora 23 boots on my Power 5 hardware pretty well, I'd like >> to see CentOS 7 support it, too. There's plenty of aresome >> hardware out there that is not brand new... > >>> I vote Little Endian. > >>> Akira Kuno Manager Power Systems Sales Promotion Server >>> Solutions IBM Systems IBM Japan > >> Best, > >> Timo > > > Yes, you're right : there is no "vote" and don't even know why > people started to do that :-) Good to know. I was almost questioning myself. :) > James will be able to give a status update, but I know for sure > that both builds are in good progress on both big and little endian > sides. Regarding older power cpu support, that will be completely > different, and (even if I'm only a sysadmin) can lead to tears and > cry :-) I know, I tried to do a port of CentOS 6 onto my Intelli 285 back in 2010 or so and ran out of time. > Afaik, EL7 code for ppc64 is optimized for Power7 (and so can work > on Power8), and ppc64le started with only support for Power8. So > that means that if someone wants to have it working on older arch, > one has to start with a parallel build/package set, starting with > glibc itself. That reminds me some "adventure" when I was trying to > build some ppc packages on my old Mac for IBM iSeries machines :-) > (http://arrfab.net/posts/2010/Jan/08/the-joy-of-building-ppc-rpms-for-rhel-5-4-ppc-on-an-unsupported-platform/) I > think I came along this posting back then. ;) Best, Timo