On Thu, Aug 06, 2020 at 06:45:22PM +0200, Dan Horák wrote:
On Wed, 5 Aug 2020 21:21:02 -0700
Kevin Fenzi <kevin(a)scrye.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 05, 2020 at 11:26:34PM -0400, Elliott Sales de Andrade wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Now that ppc64 is gone, s390x is the only big-endian architecture
> > left. Bugs around endianness are not usually difficult to fix, _if_ I
> > can debug it and see where exactly the problem is. However, this
> > requires a tedious guess-a-patch, try a scratch build, check the
> > result, rinse and repeat.
> >
> > Mock (with --forcearch) is completely useless for this. The programs
> > just crash during the build in such a way that I can't even use
> > `catchsegv`, and gdb is unusable in the container. And besides, the
> > programs don't actually crash on real s390x anyway..
> >
> > Just like we have test machines for other less used architectures [1],
> > I am wondering if there is some way we can spin up a test machine for
> > s390x?
>
> Sorry, not with the current setup. ;(
>
> I'll keep an eye out for any possiblity tho... I'd love to be able to
> provide one.
>
> I think there may be a way to get access to a guest from ibm though.
> (I'll let folks who know about that chime in here though)
Kevin, shall I try to get a guest from Marist we could use as the stable
test/devel machine? Like we do with the ppc64le machine from the
OpenPOWER hub.
Sure! That would be great...
kevin