On Thu, 2026-05-07 at 13:38 +0200, Peter Lemenkov wrote: > Hans, thanks for raising this question once again. Today I again asked > myself why s390x (the past) is even a primary architecture while > RISC-V (the future) is not?
s390x is not "the past". It may be unfashionable, but a lot of people still run stuff on mainframes and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. It's a live, actively developed arch. Yes, there are specific problems with the IBM/RH backing for s390x in Fedora which, if not resolved, may form a reasonable argument for dropping/downgrading it in Fedora. But calling it "the past" is just off. riscv is some people's idea of the future, but that's hardly a nailed- on truth (some other people were telling us aarch64 was the future for everyone a few years ago; so far that has not panned out). More practically speaking, the currently-reasonably-available riscv hardware is incredibly slow (much worse than ppc64 or s390x) and not datacenter-ready. The folks working on riscv enablement are perfectly aware of this, and that's why they have not yet proposed making it a primary arch. -- Adam Williamson (he/him/his) Fedora QA Fedora Chat: @adamwill:fedora.im | Mastodon: @[email protected] https://www.happyassassin.net -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://forge.fedoraproject.org/infra/tickets/issues/new
