On Wednesday, June 24, 2015 09:11:17 AM Dan Callaghan wrote: > Excerpts from Bryan Chan's message of 2015-06-24 08:29 +10:00: > > Dan Horák <d...@danny.cz> wrote on 2015-06-23 02:31:23 PM: > > > On Tue, 23 Jun 2015 13:52:41 -0400 > > > > > > Filipe Miranda <fmira...@redhat.com> wrote: > > > > This can be addressed maybe by IBM, by offering build systems to > > > > help developers test their packages. > > > > > > Ack, that's something for IBM, from Red Hat side it would require > > > providing RHEL for System z subscriptions to such devel systems. > > > Currently we have one public guest running Fedora available to the > > > community, so it should be solvable. In addition to real HW there are 2 > > > solutions capable running current Linux distributions under emulation. > > > > Dan, could you elaborate on the emulation aspect? Do you mean IBM zPDT > > and Hercules? I am curious if you are using emulation in the build farm > > today. > > > > IBM is currently engaging open-source software companies to encourage > > support for the platform. IBM partners can essentially get access to > > hardware for development purposes at a discount. > > > > For the community, we have a program called Community Development > > System for Linux on z, whereby open source projects can sign up for > > free access to Linux guests on our z Systems (for a limited time): > > > > http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/linux/support/community.html > > > > During registration, you can request a RHEL installation. I am not > > sure whether it comes with a RHN subscription. > > > > Other community hardware access options are now being considered, and > > I hope something more streamlined can be announced soon. > > One possibility is to make some z/VM guests available to approved Fedora > contributors using beaker.fedoraproject.org, the same way that Red Hat > engineers can use our internal Beaker instance to reserve z/VM guests. > > I would love to see the arches that people don't have at home, like > ppc64 and aarch64, on beaker.fedoraproject.org too. > > The only big unresolved issue with beaker.fedoraproject.org right now is > how to hook up FAS authentication. I haven't had a chance to figure that > out yet.
A bigger issue would be having a z series machine that can be tied into fedora's beaker instance. Considering that there is none in Fedora space today. I do not imagine IT or Red Hat Security allowing some tunnel into the systems inside of Red Hat. Assuming we can find hardware then sure would be great. Dennis
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