[ovirt-devel] oVirt s390x support - some questions for maintainers

[Viktor Mihajlovski]

On 15.12.2017 21:29, Barak Korren wrote:
> Hi to all project maintainers,
> 
> As you may know, over the last few months the oVirt project had got
> some code contributions geared towards enabling the use of s390x
> (Mainframe) machines as hypervisor hosts.
> 
> As you may also know, if you've followed the relevant thread, some
> work had been done in collaboration with the Fedora community to
> enable os390x support in oVirt`s CI system.
> 
> We're now at the point where we can take the final step and enable
> automated builds of node components for s390x/fc27. Looking at what we
> curently build for ppc64le, I already took the time and submitted
> patches to enable build jobs for vdsm [2], ovirt-host [3], and
> ioprocess [4]. The relevant maintainers should have had these patches
> land in thair inbpx already.
> 
> Few questions remain however:
> 1. When would be the best time to merge the patches mentioned above? Given
>    that some of the projects do not support fc27 yet, that the new
> build jobs may
>    raise issues and that the 4.2 release is fast approaching, the
> right timing should
>    be considered carefully.
> 2. Which additional projects need to be build? I can see we build some SDK
>    components for ppc64le as wel, are those dependences of vdsm? Will we need
>    to build then for s390x?
> 
> 
> [1]: http://jenkins.ovirt.org/search/?q=master_build-artifacts-el7-ppc64le
> [2]: https://gerrit.ovirt.org/c/85487
> [3]: https://gerrit.ovirt.org/c/85486
> [4]: https://gerrit.ovirt.org/c/85485
> 

Since 4.2 is out, it would be great if we could merge the ovirt-host [3]
first and - if successfull - vdsm [2]. Should there be failures on s390x
I would have a look.

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Mit freundlichen Grüßen/Kind Regards
   Viktor Mihajlovski