Nov 4, 2025: ppc64le runners appear stable, mirroring has been completed Currently we're just in patch review with IBM. There are ongoing changes to the patches, but we don't currently anticipate any major issues with merging them once the patches are stable.   Oct 30, 2025: The ppc64le runners have been confirmed to be stable and we will continue using their current S2S setup for the time being until our Productization team can set up both s390x and ppc64le runners using our IT's IBM Cloud account, something that was discussed with the Konflux infrastructure team in this meeting: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fw8pgxAyTu_I34cgVn0YHWrJNYcwaTeoRGtEgwkf_N8/edit?tab=t.0 . We are currently blocked on mirroring latest ppc64le RPMs to https://private.console.redhat.com/api/pulp-content/rhai/spyre/release/ppc64le/ , that work is ongoing in https://redhat-internal.slack.com/archives/C08DYCR4E4U/p1761757776135469 . Lance Barto has a MR in the base images repo that depends on these RPMs being available: https://gitlab.com/redhat/rhel-ai/core/base-images/app/-/merge_requests/334 Lance also submitted a PR in Fromager ( https://github.com/python-wheel-build/fromager/pull/826 ) that is awaiting approvals, merge, and release in builder. This will allow us to add per-architecture specific version requirements, unblocking a builder MR: https://gitlab.com/redhat/rhel-ai/wheels/builder/-/merge_requests/1538 . Once all of these issues are resolved, Lance exp expects to have the final MR in the assembly layer open by Friday or Monday, aiming for a preliminary test image soon after. Oct 21 2025: npanpali from IBM has been doing a weekend run of the ppc64le runners on the builder repo to confirm stability.  There was an issue with testing.  Waiting on testing results from her.