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

[Alec Warner <antarus@gentoo.org>]

On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 11:25 AM, Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Dear Everyone,
>
> Does anyone have root access to Linux systems on any of the following
> architectures that is willing to help ZFS development?
>
> Alpha
> HPPA
> IA-64
> MIPS/MIPS64
> PPC/PPC64
> SH
> SPARC/SPARC64

http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/infrastructure/dev-machines.xml

-A

>
> 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.
>
> People willing (and able) to help should email me with their
> architecture and distribution. Gentoo Linux is preferred, but not
> required. No knowledge of programming is required. I will provide you
> with instructions on how to build and test ZFS on your architecture.
>
> Yours truly,
> Richard Yao
>