[CentOS-devel] Release for CentOS Linux 7 (1804) on POWER9 (ppc64le)

Johnny Hughes

johnny at centos.org
Sat Aug 25 10:53:32 UTC 2018


On 08/22/2018 03:52 AM, Sandro Bonazzola wrote:
> 
> 
> 2018-08-22 10:49 GMT+02:00 Fabian Arrotin <arrfab at centos.org
> <mailto:arrfab at centos.org>>:
> 
>     On 22/08/18 10:44, Sandro Bonazzola wrote:
>     > 
>     > This is a great news.
>     > Can we have a power9 arch repo
>     > in http://mirror.centos.org/altarch/7/virt/
>     <http://mirror.centos.org/altarch/7/virt/> as well?
>     > I guess other SIGs are in same situation.
>     > 
> 
>     $basearch on Power9 is still ppc64le, so it should just work ?
>     At least that's what I was told, as we have no Power9 to test it :)
> 
> 
> Can anybody with a power9 environment test it and give feedback?

The ONLY items changed from base ppc64le are:

kernel (and all the things that SRPM produce)
anaconda (and all the things that SRPM produce)

Besides the binary RPMs produced from those SRPMS .. everything else is
just ppc64le built items hard linked in.

So, theoretically the only items that would have an issue would be
things that require the 3.10.0 RHEL based kernel and not the kernel-alt
(4.14.0 based) .. or that depend on anaconda.

If you want/need to BUILD something against kernel-alt or the new
anaconda instead of the base os ones .. we will need to get that set up
in CBS.

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