[CentOS-devel] CentOS for IBM LinuxONE / IBM System Z

Thanks for the clarification.
And thanks to FuLong, and any others helping in this effort.

On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 6:41 AM David Edelsohn <dje.gcc at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Sorry, I replied to the wrong thread.
>
> FuLong is trying to restart the CentOS on s390x effort and we are
> trying to determine the technical steps to initiate a bootstrap.  I
> reported the plan from 2018.
>
> Thanks, David
>
> On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 9:36 AM Troy Dawson <tdawson at redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > What does this mean?
> > Does this mean we aren't going to do a s390x for CentOS 8?
> > Does it mean we are going to do it, and have a plan?
> >
> > On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 6:26 AM David Edelsohn <dje.gcc at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > From: Karanbir Singh <kbsingh at centos.org>
> > > To: David Edelsohn <edelsohn at us.ibm.com>
> > > Date: 05/17/2018 11:17 PM
> > > Subject: Re: CentOS on Z-Series
> > >
> > > Hi David,
> > >
> > > We wont need ClefOS to do the bootstrap, we'd want to do it the same way
> > > as we did the power bringup and the arm-server etc just to keep the
> > > baseline intact and work from there up.
> > >
> > > -----
> > >
> > > The plan from the IBMer who had bootstrapped CentOS on PPC64LE Linux was:
> > >
> > > I just spoke a bit with Jim Perrins (Evolution on irc) and got the go
> > > ahead to use ClefOS to speed up the bootstrap. I think I’ll stop
> > > asking questions and get to work quietly before Karanbir Singh tells
> > > me I have to use old Fedora 19 s390x rpms to bootstrap and build
> > > everything from CentOS 7.0 -> 7.1 -> 7.2 -> 7.3 -> 7.4 -> 7.5
> > >
> > > I will build CentOS 7.5.1804 s390x/s390 will a small backing of ClefOS
> > > rpms, and then rebuild CentOS 7.5.1804 s390x/s390 cleanly with itself.
> > > At some point I”ll need to get the LinuxOne VMs reinstalled with my
> > > CentOS code for the final rebuild and then turn things over to CentOS
> > > guys to gpg sign and publish.
> > >
> > > -----
> > >
> > > The IBMer then was instructed to not help Z.  And the CentOS work
> > > never was staffed within IBM.
> > >
> > > - David
> > >
> > > On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 3:49 AM FuLong Wang <fulwang at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hello Everyone,
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > I'm from IBM China Development Team and I'm working on a new initiative that plan to enable a "minimized" or "full" CentOS operating system on IBM LinuxONE / IBM System Z (s390x architect).
> > > >
> > > > The reason why we start this topic is we are trying to contribute to the RDO community with our OpenStack build on LInuxONE.
> > > > We have successfully finished the build job for OpenStack Train Version on LinuxONE and passed the basic function verification tests recently.
> > > > Now, we already have a link for worldwide users & fans to reference for their needs.
> > > > For "official official" contributing to the RDO community, community admin stated that a TripleO CI env is a must for community release criteria and
> > > > the OpenStack packages need to be built in the CentOS build system which run on s390x arch.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > So, we turn to here for help, we know CentOS community ever had releases for s390x arch but for whatever reasons finally stopped for update.
> > > > We want to take this opportunity to enable it up again and therefore
> > > > want to know about the overall processes, skills required, hardware requirements, manpowers and duration estimated and which parts need IBM's team's input, etc.
> > > >
> > > > Our target is to enable at least a "minimized" CentOS (which can support the OpenStack CI work), is there a SIG fit for this purpose? or a "full" CentOS with default feature sets.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Could anybody kindly give us some clue to start this journey?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Thanks everyone in advance!
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > The Howto of OpenStack Train Installation on IBM LinuxONE had been merged to the RDO official website.
> > > >
> > > > https://www.rdoproject.org/install/
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > FuLong Wang
> > > > fulong.wang at cn.ibm.com
> > > > IBM China Systems Lab, Beijing, China
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