Fedora s390x
- IRC: #fedora-s390x on irc.freenode.net
- Mailing List: fedora-s390x
- Regular IRC meetings: TBD
Targets
- short term goals:
- build all F-10 packages which then will be used to bootstrap F-11
- add all required patches to F-11 CVS
- reached 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 build guests within Red Hat (internal access only at first)
- 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 F-11 s390x bootable
- this is blocking on the external dedicated environment issue (above)
People
- BrockOrgan
- Brad Hinson
- Justin Payne
- Dan Horák
- Karsten Hopp
- 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 600-700 failures, most of which are related to java dependencies.
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 build --scratch -s http://s390.koji.fedoraproject.org/kojihub --arch-override s390x dist-f12 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
Packages to be submitted:
openCryptoki