Re: Adding a new platform support to Hadoop

2011-11-17 Thread Steve Loughran
On 17/11/11 15:02, Amir Sanjar wrote: Is there any specific development, build, and packaging guidelines to add support for a new hardware platform, in this case PPC64, to hadoop? Best Regards Amir Sanjar Linux System Management Architect and Lead IBM Senior Software Engineer Phone# 512-286-839

Re: Adding a new platform support to Hadoop

2011-11-17 Thread Brian Bockelman
Hi Amir, The best person to engage is Allen Wittenauer, who has "fought the good fight" on this previously. It's a bit of an uphill battle, as the primary development platform is definitely Linux / x86-64. I saw him close a bunch of portability-related tickets a few weeks ago, which made me a

Adding a new platform support to Hadoop

2011-11-17 Thread Amir Sanjar
Is there any specific development, build, and packaging guidelines to add support for a new hardware platform, in this case PPC64, to hadoop? Best Regards Amir Sanjar Linux System Management Architect and Lead IBM Senior Software Engineer Phone# 512-286-8393 Fax# 512-838-8858