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