Hi Sergio! On 1/25/19 5:33 PM, Sergio Lindo wrote:
A few enough-crazy people are joining in #opensuse-zsystems @freenode.net with intention of reviving the openSUSE community of S390X, which seems to be abandoned for 2 years now, as I can see on openQA test results.
I'm doing a lot of works on exotic ports, in particular in Debian, so I would generally be interested. However, I think that s390x is rather boring because everything works already. IBM has a lot of people working on upstream projects, so starting a Linux distribution is basically a matter of bootstrapping and then just let the build machines do the rest. There might be some packages here and there that need attention, but the vast majority builds and works just fine on s390x. I think, currently it's only mozjs60 which is broken and therefore causes issues for Debian on s390x because half of GNOME depends on a JavaScript engine to work. I would be more interested on working on openSUSE for sparc64. We've done a lot of work on Debian's sparc64 port which includes work on GRUB, Rust, OpenJDK, Firefox, Thunderbird etc so that quite a large number of packages work fine these days. What still needs work and is an actual challenge are the various JavaScript engines which don't cope with the fact that sparc64 has a 52-bit virtual address so tagged pointers get mangled. We have plenty of sparc64 machines available which could be set up as build machines for openSUSE. Someone would just have to enable the architecture in OBS. Another port that I am interesting in is m68k that we're also maintaining in Debian. There are quite some people working on m68k stuff and there are even efforts for an LLVM backend for m68k which eventually means Rust for m68k :-). Adrian -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org