On Mon, 4 Jun 2018 09:38:54 -0400 John Mertic <[email protected]> wrote:
> Not sure if s390x is a supported arch, but if so I can get access to > that hardware for the project on an ongoing basis. > > Thank you, > > John Mertic > Director of Program Management - Linux Foundation - ODPi, R > Consortium, and Open Mainframe Project > [email protected] > +1 234-738-4571 > Schedule time with me at https://calendly.com/jmertic <snip> Hi John, Sorry for the delay in answering. We've not yet defined S390x as a supported arch, but we've not had builders available, so your offer is timely. I know Hadoop 2.+ will work on S390x, as IBM committed a bunch of fixes to allow it to compile and run, and http://www.veristorm.com/zdoop is a commercial offering. What we would need is a way to add S390x to our CI and eventually be able to offer convenience artifacts to our releases. Speaking for myself, when I landed at SUSE, one of my first pet projects was to see if Bigtop could run on SLES for SystemZ. At the time, Hadoop was on 1.x, which relied on Sun Java specific security classes, hence only the Sun JVM would suffice. This barrier has been overcome. So, my first take is a: a huge thanks for the offer and we will explore this to the fullest extent possible to make this as supported platform. b: Let us know what we need to enable on our side to make this happen. c: I'd love to know any objections from our PMC and committers, which I think/hope would be minimal. Cheers, Peter Linnell
