[CentOS-devel] Adding s390x as an alternative architecture

On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 2:06 PM, Brian Stinson <brian at bstinson.com> wrote:

> On Jul 13 12:59, James O'Connor wrote:
> >
> > > 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
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>
> I think we're pretty squarely in the emulation side of things. Access to
> 'real' s390x is hard to come by.
>

I've recently become aware of the Open Mainframe Project (
https://www.openmainframeproject.org/). I'm wondering if there are possible
collaboration efforts there that could help with hardware access.


>
> If there is a group committed to the bootstrap, let's get together and
> talk about getting some resources assigned to this. Anyone else want in?
>

If it wasn't obvious from my initial request, I am interested in helping
with the bootstrapping efforts as well.

-- 
Jason DeTiberus
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