[CentOS-devel] Adding s390x as an alternative architecture

> On Jul 13, 2017, at 6:08 AM, Karanbir Singh <kbsingh at centos.org> wrote:
> 
> On 10/07/17 15:43, 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.
> 
> First thing we would need to get going is the distro bootstrap - given
> that 7.x is now almost 3 years in - we will need to go back to the pre
> release beta and bootstrap up from there.
> 
> That also means we will need the corresponding fedora bits - which
> should be available.
> 
> Once we have that in place, we'll need to workout how best to get this
> supported in cbs.centos.org, before moving to ci.centos.org support.
> 
> I'd expected this to be quite a major commitment from someone over a
> couple of months, given that hardware to back this in emulated mode wont
> be a huge problem - it just wont be quick.
> 

I would be willing to throw my hat into ring to help with the s390x port. Most of my ppc64le/ppc64 porting memory cells are still intact.

Having real s390x builder vms like fedora would help https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/hosts?start=100&state=enabled&order=name

-James