> On May 5, 2016, at 4:43 PM, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org> wrote: > > On 05/05/16 19:29, Brian Schonecker wrote: >> I have access to IBM z12 and z13 hardware. Currently, I'm running RHEL6 >> and RHEL7 for s390x architecture. >> >> Is is possible for me to offer compile resources for the alternate >> architecture of s390x? I've already recompiled many packages (EPEL for >> example) with great success on s390x. > > perhaps. we'd need to workout what this means and how we might do the > bootstraps etc. Certainly worth looking into. > I would be willing to help with a clean s390x/s390 port from Fedora 19 to RHEL7. I still have many of the steps fresh in my mind from the ppc64le/ppc64/ppc ports. >> It is a requirement of the CentOS community that the hardware be 'owned' >> by the CentOS community? It is not possible for me to make the hardware >> available to outside persons. >> > > if we do this, then there needs to be some good enough assurance that > the resources are going to be around for a sustained period of time. > Otherwise we end up delivering an onramp to a dead end, and thats not nice. > I don’t have any hardware to offer up. For true RHEL7 s390x parity we would need several z196 VMs. %ifarch s390 s390x %if 0%{?rhel} >= 7 --with-arch=z196 --with-tune=zEC12 --enable-decimal-float \ %else https://git.centos.org/blob/rpms!gcc.git/b4bb7ab1c74f8e1e5dc0849d4c2148b16074307d/SPECS!gcc.spec#L1263 -James