[lsb-discuss] LSB conference call minutes (Tuesday, January 30, 11am ET)

[Alan]

> One question is how to build the S390 packages. Apparently, we can't
> do that on S390X. Not sure if this even matters, since RHEL and SLES are
> dropping support for S390, and IBM is EOL'ing S390. Kay thinks it
> does matter, since there are ISVs wanting to certify 31-bit apps. We really
> need guidance from IBM on this. I'd really rather not drop support for
> an architecture until a major version, but we can't continue
> supporting an architecture if we can't build the software deliverables.

Hercules is a perfectly adequate emulator and will run "31"bit S/390
Linux just fine (won't run a lot of IBM OS's and stuff for licensing
reasons, but does run Linux rather nicely).