oVirt on IBM POWER (PPC64) - new feature contributors

[Dave Neary]

Hi,

On 05/14/2013 08:05 PM, Leonardo Bianconi wrote:
> We would like to introduce ourselves: Leonardo Bianconi and Vitor Lima.

Welcome!

> We would like to work on the features "Engine support for PPC64" (http://wiki.ovirt.org/Features/Engine_support_for_PPC64) and the "Vdsm for PPC64" (http://wiki.ovirt.org/Features/Vdsm_for_PPC64). This work has already been started by some developers at IBM.

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> About libosinfo:
> =============
> 
> In the previous discussion about this topic (http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/arch/2012-November/000976.html), occurred in November 2012, it was suggested that integrating the libosinfo into the engine would be a better way to handle the differences between the architectures that would be supported in the future.
> 
> Is this approach still valid? If so, when will it be available? It seems to be a dependency for oVirt "Engine_support_for_PPC64" feature implementation.


This is great news. I don't know who, specifically, has been working on
this issue in IBM - perhaps Adam Litke (CCed) can update you on the
progress that has been made.

Cheers,
Dave.

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