On Fri, 8 May 2026 13:24:21 -0400 Neal Gompa <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, May 8, 2026 at 12:57 PM Florian Weimer <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > * Neal Gompa: > > > > > We could, of course, choose to bring back support for big endian > > > PowerPC if we wanted to have an "easier" platform for endianness. All > > > POWER systems are bi-endian and IBM actively supports both endian > > > modes. > > > > I thought that big-endian is IBM i and AIX only these days, and that > > there are no new POWER big-endian deployments on Linux? > > > > I don't know one way or another. But I have seen more efforts around > it, and distributions like Adelie seem to thriving more than surviving > in years gone by. big endian distros for Power (and PowerPC) are purely community driven AFAICT > > > But yes, the fact that we've lacked access to test machines for s390x > > > for several years now is a big bummer. > > > > Is this actually true? Access may not be as convenient as it is for > > Debian Developers, but I thought there were ways to get an account on a > > Fedora-specific machine if you were really interested in debugging > > something (in addition to IBM programs in collaboration with Marist > > College etc.). > > > > There are no environments with Fedora right now. It's quite a pain to > get one. For all practical purposes, it might as well not exist. I am providing shell access to our public z/VM instances running at the Marist College to upstream developers and Fedora maintainers when there is a need. There have been ~80 people using those systems till now. What we have lacked is a test system with FAS integration, which is easier to use for Fedora maintainers, but doesn't help much upstream developers. Dan -- _______________________________________________ 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
