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

On Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at 10:30 PM Barak Korren <bkorren(a)redhat.com&gt; 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. > We should prepare a fedora 27 build for all projects before we enable the jobs in the CI. But if we can disable problematic jobs in the CI easily (and it seems we can), I think this is not a problem. You can merge the ioprocess change now if you like. > 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? > For vdsm we need: - ioprocess (nsoffer) - ovirt-imageio-daemon (derez) - ovirt-imageio-common (derez) - pthreading (ybronhei) - subprocess32 (sbonazzo?)

For engine: - ovirt-imageio-common - ovirt-imageio-proxy This is only (some) the components that we build. We have also tons of dependencies that are part of Fedora (e.g. sanlock, libvirt). I hope these projects are built for s390x. Added some maintainers. Nir > > [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 > > -- > Barak Korren > RHV DevOps team , RHCE, RHCi > Red Hat EMEA > redhat.com | TRIED. TESTED. TRUSTED. | redhat.com/trusted > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > Devel(a)ovirt.org > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/devel >