[CentOS-devel] Adding s390x as an alternative architecture

Mon Jul 10 14:54:32 UTC 2017
Brian Stinson <brian at bstinson.com>

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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> Jason DeTiberus

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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.

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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Brian Stinson