[CentOS-devel] Adding s390x as an alternative architecture

[Jason DeTiberus]

On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 10:54 AM, Brian Stinson <brian at bstinson.com> wrote:

> On Jul 10 10:43, Jason DeTiberus wrote:
> > With the current efforts under way with aarch64 and ppc64le, I would like
> > to suggest that s390x also be added as an alternative architecture.
> > Obviously hardware would be the biggest obstacle, but I do not see any
> > reason why we couldn't get started with just emulated hardware.
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> What sort of hardware do we need to support the emulation? I'd imagine
> this would be painfully slow for the bootstrap, but perhaps that's ok.
>

libvirt/qemu supports s390x emulation, so we could simply use commodity
x86_64 hardware.

-- 
Jason DeTiberus


>
> Is there a group of folks interested enough in s390x to give pointers
> and/or reviews on the admin side of things?


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