Architectures/s390x

Fedora s390x

• IRC: #fedora-s390x on irc.freenode.net
• Mailing List: fedora-s390x
• Regular IRC meetings: TBD

Targets

• short term goals:
• reach out to known interested parties in community
• reaching out (through contacts) to IBM community (.de)
• have several "interested parties" that will help once we are building packages/trees
• set up externally/publically available koji instance
• s390x koji instance
• identified persistent storage (> 2 TB anticipated in first year alone)
• temporary location (while we sort out long term permanent location)
• start F-11 composes
• identify the resources used for composes
• get to the point where F-11 is bootable and installable with pungi images
• this is blocking on the external dedicated environment issue (above)

People

• Karsten Hopp Secondary Arch Maintainer (nickname Kick_ in #fedora-s390x on IRC)
• BrockOrgan
• Brad Hinson
• Justin Payne
• Dan Horák
• Phil Knirsch

History

FUDcon 2008 was an excellent event. During the conference, a session on secondary arches was presented and there was an excellent effort made to reach out to new arches.

After several months of bootstrapping as of June 2009 we've reached a state where we have most packages built from current Fedora rawhide CVS. There are still around ~500 failures, most of which are related to java and ocaml dependencies (ocaml is not available on s390x).

For those interested in trying it our you can now download a fully working and bootable hercules Fedora 11 s390x image:

http://secondary.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/spins/S390/

You will find several files there:

• README
  • Very brief howto get everything up and running
• f11-s390x.img
  • Hercules Fedora 11 s390x DASD image
• f11-s390x.tar.bz2
  • tarball of the whole tree. Can be unpacked on a real machine (confirmed it works!)
• hercules.cnf
  • hercules emulator config file
• hercules.init
  • Small script to start up hercules with some iptables rules for NAT (might require you to modify your personal rules in order to work properly)

Tips

To submit a build for your specific package for s390x do this:

koji -s http://s390.koji.fedoraproject.org/kojihub build --scratch --arch-override s390x dist-f11 yourpkg.src.rpm

or after running fedora-packager-setup (from the fedora-packager rpm)

koji -c ~/.koji/s390-config build --scratch dist-f11 yourpkg.src.rpm

Tracker Bugs

If excluding s390/s390x architectures you need to make the bug block F-ExcludeArch-s390x

to see whats currently blocking visit Bugzilla

If a bug is specific to s390/s390x architectures make the bug blocking ZedoraTracker

to see not yet resolved issues visit Bugzilla

Packages under review

List of s390 specific packages currently under review in Fedora

openssl-ibmca

Packages to be submitted:

openCryptoki