On Thu, 2020-08-06 at 13:42 -0400, Robbie Harwood wrote:
> Elliott Sales de Andrade <quantum.anal...@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Now that ppc64 is gone, s390x is the only big-endian architecture
> > left. Bugs around endianness are not usually difficult to fix, _if_ I
> > can debug it and see where exactly the problem is. However, this
> > requires a tedious guess-a-patch, try a scratch build, check the
> > result, rinse and repeat.
> > 
> > Mock (with --forcearch) is completely useless for this. The programs
> > just crash during the build in such a way that I can't even use
> > `catchsegv`, and gdb is unusable in the container. And besides, the
> > programs don't actually crash on real s390x anyway..
> > 
> > Just like we have test machines for other less used architectures [1],
> > I am wondering if there is some way we can spin up a test machine for
> > s390x?
> > 
> > [1] 
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Machine_Resources_For_Package_Maintainers
> 
> It's very strange to me that having test hardware available isn't a
> requirement for being a Primary architecture, or for that architecture
> being present in koji.  IMO we should change that going forward.

s390x isn't a primary arch. It's an alternative arch.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures
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