On Oct 10, 2007, at 3:46 PM, Brad Hinson wrote:
While this makes sense for x86/x86_64, folks usually don't have resources to spare on the z. Or am I wrong? Out of curiosity (please don't flame), would anyone be willing to contribute a small LPAR and some network bandwidth to this?
It would be slow, but there's no reason you couldn't use a Hercules box for this. Yes, the initial build would take weeks and weeks, but once you had it off the ground, it's not a lot slower than something like ARM or 680x0, if you dedicated a pretty-good-size x86_64 box to the task. I don't have one to spare, but, relatively speaking, it'd be a lot cheaper than a zSeries, and a hobbyist could do it without having to get approval from some organization to peel off a bit of a mainframe. Also: why do you need an LPAR? Would a guest under z/VM not be good enough? If z/VM would do the trick, then wouldn't Fedora be a reasonable OSDL project? Adam ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
