aarch64 bugs

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 03:12:13PM +0000, Peter Robinson wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 2:53 PM, Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to> wrote:
> > On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 09:14:52 -0500,
> >   Jeffrey Ollie <jeff at ocjtech.us> wrote:
> >>
> >> Yesterday a bunch of bugs were opened up regarding aarch64 support in
> >> some packages.  I'd like to do my part in fixing these, but is there a
> >> way to actually run test builds?  I know that there's ARM support in
> >> the works, but I haven't really kept up with the details.
> >
> >
> > I was going to ask the same question.
> 
> At the moment there is not. We're working on the platform bring up and
> in the coming weeks there will an initial Fedora 19 based image
> released that will be able to run on the free ARM Foundation model
> [1]. Eventually there will be hardware available but I'm not sure when
> that will be as there's not been anything publicly announced.
> Ultimately we're very much in the prep stages for a mass rebuild of
> Fedora for aarch64 when we eventually get actual HW, at the moment a
> build of something like gcc takes days.
> 
> Peter
> 
> [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/AArch64/FoundationModel

Peter,

I spent a few minutes searching for details of AArch64, such as its
endianness and what processor features (ie. 'flags' in /proc/cpuinfo)
it has.

It seems the endianness is switchable like MIPS, which I guess is a
good thing.  What endianness will Fedora use?  What about other Linux
distros?

Do you know what processor features ('flags') will be available in the
first shipping hardware?

Rich.

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