Hi Fabio,

> Gesendet: Freitag, 8. Mai 2026 um 14:42
> Von: "Fabio Valentini" <[email protected]>
> An: "Development discussions related to Fedora" 
> <[email protected]>
> Betreff: Re: Reconsidering Fedora architecture support
>
> On Fri, May 8, 2026 at 2:38 PM Gary Buhrmaster
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> &gt;
> &gt; On Fri, May 8, 2026 at 9:07 AM Richard W.M. Jones <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> &gt; &gt;
> &gt; &gt; On Thu, May 07, 2026 at 10:43:37AM -0500, Michael Catanzaro wrote:
> &gt; &gt; &gt; whereas it's common for builds to fail only on s390x
> &gt; &gt; &gt; due to endianness issues.
> &gt; &gt;
> &gt; &gt; This is a feature, not a bug.
> &gt;
> &gt; Not just a feature, an advantage.  With the
> &gt; elimination of BE Power as a supported
> &gt; architecture, the s/390 BE architecture
> &gt; helps developers identify errors due to
> &gt; LE monoculture thinking.
> 
> Well, mostly, it just makes things blow up in packagers faces only on s390x.
> Most upstream developers I reported endianness bugs to were happy to
> take patches but almost always said something to the effect of "this
> is an obscure CPU architecture that I cannot test or even have access
> to, patches welcome but meh"
Please distribute the following links in the future:
1) Test VMs: https://airtable.com/appXw9nqkezp9CQKb/pagfUYwQrjHEmcy4b/form
2) Github Actions HowTo: https://github.com/marketplace/power-z-gha-runner
3) General CI/CD resources: 
https://openmainframeproject.org/news/developer-resources-for-linux-on-s390x/

Thanks for helping distributing s390x resources to Upstream Developers!
Best regards,
Sarah
> 
> Fabio
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