On Thu, Aug 06, 2020 at 06:45:22PM +0200, Dan Horák wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Aug 2020 21:21:02 -0700
> Kevin Fenzi <ke...@scrye.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Aug 05, 2020 at 11:26:34PM -0400, Elliott Sales de Andrade wrote:
> > > 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?
> > 
> > Sorry, not with the current setup. ;( 
> > 
> > I'll keep an eye out for any possiblity tho... I'd love to be able to
> > provide one. 
> > 
> > I think there may be a way to get access to a guest from ibm though. 
> > (I'll let folks who know about that chime in here though)
> 
> Kevin, shall I try to get a guest from Marist we could use as the stable
> test/devel machine? Like we do with the ppc64le machine from the
> OpenPOWER hub.

Sure! That would be great... 

kevin

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