[CentOS-devel] CentOS for IBM Mainframes.

Stephen,

Seems that is not so easy to get S390x hardware as PPC Servers.

Thank you very much for your answer.

Regards,


Javier Romero




2018-02-20 15:01 GMT-03:00 Stephen John Smoogen <smooge at gmail.com>:
> On 20 February 2018 at 11:42, Javier Romero <xavinux at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2018-02-20 13:21 GMT-03:00 Fabian Arrotin <arrfab at centos.org>:
>>> On 20/02/18 17:14, Javier Romero wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> I see that IBM LinuxONE, provides a Z Mainframe running with Linux Red
>>>> Hat, SUSE OR Ubuntu Server distros.
>>>>
>>>> Do you think that could also be useful for CentOS to be another option
>>>> for LinuxONE?
>>>>
>>>> Maybe a a CentOS Mainframe SIG can be created to work on this.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for your attention.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>> Javier Romero
>>>
>>> Hi Javier,
>>>
>>> That would probably be for the AltArch-SIG , already building CentOS 7 for
>>>  - IBM Power 8 (ppc64, ppc64le)
>>>  - aarch64 (aka ARMv8 , 64bits)
>>>  - armhfp (aka ARMv7 , 32bits)
>>>  - i686
>>>
>>> But the s390 question was raised already in the past, but finding :
>>> - people willing to bootstrap the rebuild
>>
>> Well, I'm very interested on contributing with this.
>>
>>> - on dedicated hardware donated to the project (yeah, difficult part)
>>> is a "challenge" :)
>>
>> Is there any chance that IBM donate this hardware for the CentOS
>> project? Think that will be also useful for that company to have
>> another Linux distro running on their Z Systems.
>>
>
> I can only say from the Fedora side, that it is very complicated. IBM
> does not donate mainframes in the same way they may donate PPC
> hardware to a site. Where-ever the hardware is requires dedicated
> resources (water cooling, extra power conditioning) and contracts with
> IBM. The contracts seemed to be the longest time and I don't know what
> it entailed as it is lawyer stuff. There was just a long time of "we
> can't" then "oh we can but you will need to use this one system we
> have in a far away location using these methods".
>
>
>
> --
> Stephen J Smoogen.
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