Re: Test machines for s390x?

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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

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