Re: [gentoo-dev] Porting ZFS to additional architectures
On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 11:25 AM, Richard Yao r...@gentoo.org wrote: Dear Everyone, Does anyone have root access to Linux systems on any of the following architectures that is willing to help ZFS development? Alpha HPPA IA-64 MIPS/MIPS64 PPC/PPC64 SH SPARC/SPARC64 http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/infrastructure/dev-machines.xml -A I want to port ZFSOnLinux to all Gentoo Linux architectures this year. The above architectures either are not currently supported or have not been tested in a while. Most of them will require patching isa_defs.h, which I am in a position to do. I am not distributing the patches because I don't know if ZFS will build on those platforms. People willing (and able) to help should email me with their architecture and distribution. Gentoo Linux is preferred, but not required. No knowledge of programming is required. I will provide you with instructions on how to build and test ZFS on your architecture. Yours truly, Richard Yao
Re: [gentoo-dev] Porting ZFS to additional architectures
On 02/06/2013 02:12 AM, Sergei Trofimovich wrote: On Tue, 05 Feb 2013 14:25:56 -0500 Richard Yao r...@gentoo.org wrote: I want to port ZFSOnLinux to all Gentoo Linux architectures this year. The above architectures either are not currently supported or have not been tested in a while. Most of them will require patching isa_defs.h, which I am in a position to do. I am not distributing the patches because I don't know if ZFS will build on those platforms. Try to use crossdev to make sure it builds. Usermode linux seems to have been ported at least to ppc and ia64. Unfortunately, I cannot run the ZFS Regression Test Suite on cross compiled binaries. Also, ZFS' build system requires a built kernel against which it does numerous autotools checks. It is more desirable to run them against a kernel known to actually work rather than something I built without testing it. You might like to start from there in order to not to ruin poor boxes. I am asking people to test production-quality code, so the systems should be fine. Afterward, anyone on Gentoo that wants to remove the files can run `emerge -C sys-kernel/spl sys-fs/zfs-kmod sys-fs/zfs`. People on non-gentoo systems that want to remove the files can do that manually. I will provide them with the information needed to do that should they want to do it. So far, only people using Gentoo have volunteered to test. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-dev] Porting ZFS to additional architectures
On 02/06/2013 11:26 AM, Alec Warner wrote: On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 11:25 AM, Richard Yao r...@gentoo.org wrote: Dear Everyone, Does anyone have root access to Linux systems on any of the following architectures that is willing to help ZFS development? Alpha HPPA IA-64 MIPS/MIPS64 PPC/PPC64 SH SPARC/SPARC64 http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/infrastructure/dev-machines.xml -A I had not thought of those. Thanks for the suggestion. :) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-dev] Porting ZFS to additional architectures
Dear Everyone, Does anyone have root access to Linux systems on any of the following architectures that is willing to help ZFS development? Alpha HPPA IA-64 MIPS/MIPS64 PPC/PPC64 SH SPARC/SPARC64 I want to port ZFSOnLinux to all Gentoo Linux architectures this year. The above architectures either are not currently supported or have not been tested in a while. Most of them will require patching isa_defs.h, which I am in a position to do. I am not distributing the patches because I don't know if ZFS will build on those platforms. People willing (and able) to help should email me with their architecture and distribution. Gentoo Linux is preferred, but not required. No knowledge of programming is required. I will provide you with instructions on how to build and test ZFS on your architecture. Yours truly, Richard Yao signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-dev] Porting ZFS to additional architectures
On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 11:25 AM, Richard Yao r...@gentoo.org wrote: Dear Everyone, Does anyone have root access to Linux systems on any of the following architectures that is willing to help ZFS development? Alpha HPPA IA-64 MIPS/MIPS64 PPC/PPC64 SH SPARC/SPARC64 I want to port ZFSOnLinux to all Gentoo Linux architectures this year. The above architectures either are not currently supported or have not been tested in a while. Most of them will require patching isa_defs.h, which I am in a position to do. I am not distributing the patches because I don't know if ZFS will build on those platforms. People willing (and able) to help should email me with their architecture and distribution. Gentoo Linux is preferred, but not required. No knowledge of programming is required. I will provide you with instructions on how to build and test ZFS on your architecture. Yours truly, Richard Yao I talked to ryao on IRC, but didn't seem to get my point across: (Almost?) no one runs Gentoo on any of these architectures for anything other than the novelty. There is zero point in maintaining ZFS on them, and it only stands to add load to the arch teams. These architectures operate on a we-only-keyword-things-necessary-or-users-ask-for policy. I don't think ZFS falls into either of these cases.
Re: [gentoo-dev] Porting ZFS to additional architectures
Matt, I asked users who want ZFSOnLinux upstream to support additional architectures to assist me in porting it. I CCed gentoo-dev@ because many people in the Gentoo community that had already offered to help with other things. The only immediate effect that this will have on Gentoo is `env ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~* sys-fs/zfs` will work on additional architectures. If users request that Gentoo support ZFS on their platforms, then we will be in a position to consider that. Yours truly, Richard Yao On 02/05/2013 03:58 PM, Matt Turner wrote: On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 11:25 AM, Richard Yao r...@gentoo.org wrote: Dear Everyone, Does anyone have root access to Linux systems on any of the following architectures that is willing to help ZFS development? Alpha HPPA IA-64 MIPS/MIPS64 PPC/PPC64 SH SPARC/SPARC64 I want to port ZFSOnLinux to all Gentoo Linux architectures this year. The above architectures either are not currently supported or have not been tested in a while. Most of them will require patching isa_defs.h, which I am in a position to do. I am not distributing the patches because I don't know if ZFS will build on those platforms. People willing (and able) to help should email me with their architecture and distribution. Gentoo Linux is preferred, but not required. No knowledge of programming is required. I will provide you with instructions on how to build and test ZFS on your architecture. Yours truly, Richard Yao I talked to ryao on IRC, but didn't seem to get my point across: (Almost?) no one runs Gentoo on any of these architectures for anything other than the novelty. There is zero point in maintaining ZFS on them, and it only stands to add load to the arch teams. These architectures operate on a we-only-keyword-things-necessary-or-users-ask-for policy. I don't think ZFS falls into either of these cases. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-dev] Porting ZFS to additional architectures
On Tue, 05 Feb 2013 14:25:56 -0500 Richard Yao r...@gentoo.org wrote: I want to port ZFSOnLinux to all Gentoo Linux architectures this year. The above architectures either are not currently supported or have not been tested in a while. Most of them will require patching isa_defs.h, which I am in a position to do. I am not distributing the patches because I don't know if ZFS will build on those platforms. Try to use crossdev to make sure it builds. Usermode linux seems to have been ported at least to ppc and ia64. You might like to start from there in order to not to ruin poor boxes. -- Sergei signature.asc Description: PGP signature
