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Remove Support For s390x

Open dave-tucker opened this issue 4 years ago • 6 comments

Linuxkit has supported s390x for a while, but we are not aware of any users of this architecture. While IBM have graciously helped provide resources for both the initial port and providing machines for build/test we are but a small group of volunteers and the additional overhead of supporting an architecture, kernel/package builds etc... is hard to justify without any users.

As such I propose that we remove support for s390x for now. This is not forever, and we'll be happy to open discussions about bringing it back in future if there are users that want it. For now though we have to prioritse where our maintainers can spend their (limited) time.

/cc @justincormack @deitch @rn @djs55 as i'd like you to ack this

dave-tucker avatar May 26 '21 13:05 dave-tucker

makes sense to me

thaJeztah avatar May 26 '21 13:05 thaJeztah

Agreed.

deitch avatar May 26 '21 13:05 deitch

OK!

djs55 avatar May 26 '21 13:05 djs55

SGTM

justincormack avatar May 26 '21 15:05 justincormack

Note that things should still work on s390x, this mainly means no prebuilt binaries for now.

justincormack avatar May 26 '21 15:05 justincormack

I agree with Justin. Happy to remove it from the builds and as a default arch from linuxkit but would be good to keep support where needed to build binaries and packages. This does imply, though removing it from linuxkit/alpine and the kernel builds, which are special.

FWIW, I currently have some changes to kernel builds etc which I'm still debugging and I'd appreciate if I don't get a conflicting PR while doing so :)

rn avatar May 26 '21 21:05 rn