Re: [gentoo-dev] Porting ZFS to additional architectures

[Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>]

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On 02/06/2013 02:12 AM, Sergei Trofimovich wrote:
> On Tue, 05 Feb 2013 14:25:56 -0500
> Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org> wrote:
> 
>> I want to port ZFSOnLinux to all Gentoo Linux architectures this year.
>> The above architectures either are not currently supported or have not
>> been tested in a while. Most of them will require patching isa_defs.h,
>> which I am in a position to do. I am not distributing the patches
>> because I don't know if ZFS will build on those platforms.
> 
> Try to use crossdev to make sure it builds. Usermode linux
> seems to have been ported at least to ppc and ia64.

Unfortunately, I cannot run the ZFS Regression Test Suite on cross
compiled binaries. Also, ZFS' build system requires a built kernel
against which it does numerous autotools checks. It is more desirable to
run them against a kernel known to actually work rather than something I
built without testing it.

> You might like to start from there in order to not to ruin
> poor boxes.
> 

I am asking people to test production-quality code, so the systems
should be fine. Afterward, anyone on Gentoo that wants to remove the
files can run `emerge -C sys-kernel/spl sys-fs/zfs-kmod sys-fs/zfs`.
People on non-gentoo systems that want to remove the files can do that
manually. I will provide them with the information needed to do that
should they want to do it. So far, only people using Gentoo have
volunteered to test.


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