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. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-devel mailing list > CentOS-devel at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel