On 11/9/20 2:27 PM, H.Merijn Brand wrote:
It would actually be nice if IBM developed a slimmed down version of the s390x hardware purely for community purposes, i.e. some sort of evaluation board.
That would be awesome, but I don't have high hopes
Others would be helpful too: e.g. HP's Itanium and PA-RISC2
PA-RISC is very stable and has rather good upstream support (toolchain and kernel). The only thing that's currently missing is LLVM/Rust and OpenJDK Zero due to the fact that HPPA has an upward-growing stack (why would anyone do that ;-)). I have started working on OpenJDK Zero for PA-RISC though and will finish it at some point. Itanium is currently a bit more tricky. For one, kernels > 4.14 don't run on larger NUMA systems and the other thing is that Ruby 2.7 dropped support for Itanium. OpenJDK runs fine, LLVM/Rust is missing as LLVM dropped IA64 support at some point. M68k is very promising as it has a very strong community, especially for being such an old port and is even about to get an LLVM backend [1] (which means Rust on the Amiga :D). We also recently got a new QEMU pure virtual machine type for M68k [2] which will make the target very attractive for OBS. I would love to see a public m68k openSUSE port in OBS, that would be really cool. Adrian
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