Secondary Arch Status reports

[Josh Boyer]

Hi All,

In an effort to get a better understanding of how the Secondary Arch work
is progresing in Fedora, FESCo would like to get some information on how
things currently are, what work is being done, etc.

To start with, a brief recap of where your Arch is at compared to the
primary arches would be great.  Feel free to highlight any hurdles that
are in the way, etc.

Ideally, we'd like to get this information about once a month in a brief
status report.  For now there is nothing formal required.  Our hope is that
as we continue to grow in this area, we can better coordinate with the other
Fedora groups (like Rel-Eng) and make sure we have smooth Secondary Arch
releases, etc.

Thanks for you time and I look forward to hearing from you.

josh

[Tom Callaway]

On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 08:57 -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
>  Hi All,
>  
>  In an effort to get a better understanding of how the Secondary Arch work
>  is progresing in Fedora, FESCo would like to get some information on how
>  things currently are, what work is being done, etc.
>  
>  To start with, a brief recap of where your Arch is at compared to the
>  primary arches would be great.  Feel free to highlight any hurdles that
>  are in the way, etc. 
SPARC:

We have a full package tree for Fedora 9, but we do not have a
functional anaconda. We've been able to compose images, but when we try
to boot them, anaconda either never starts, or crashes immediately
during stage 1. We suspect that we're dealing with memory overwrites
from the bootloader, but have not had time to properly debug this.

We have a functional koji instance that builds for sparcv9 and sparc64
targets (as well as the variants for glibc [sparcv9v, sparc64v].

We have some packages built for F10, but not a full tree.

~spot

[Brad Hinson]

Josh Boyer wrote:
>  Hi All,
>  
>  In an effort to get a better understanding of how the Secondary Arch work
>  is progresing in Fedora, FESCo would like to get some information on how
>  things currently are, what work is being done, etc.
>  
>  To start with, a brief recap of where your Arch is at compared to the
>  primary arches would be great.  Feel free to highlight any hurdles that
>  are in the way, etc.
>  
>  Ideally, we'd like to get this information about once a month in a brief
>  status report.  For now there is nothing formal required.  Our hope is that
>  as we continue to grow in this area, we can better coordinate with the other
>  Fedora groups (like Rel-Eng) and make sure we have smooth Secondary Arch
>  releases, etc.
>  
>  Thanks for you time and I look forward to hearing from you.
>  
>  josh 
s390:

We have a full F9 tree and working install images created from a 
manually patched anaconda.  Currently finalizing patches to anaconda and 
initscripts to get installable images automatically through pungi.  Next 
steps include finalized buildinstall/initrd patch, package signing, and 
integration with http://secondary.fedoraproject.org .

Koji hub is up with two builders, s390x (64-bit) only.  Have begun 
building F10 packages for buildroot.

Dan created the fedora-s390x mailing list today.

-- 
Brad Hinson <bhinson(a)redhat.com&gt;
Sr. Support Engineer Lead, System z
Red Hat, Inc.
[phone]
www.redhat.com/z

[Brad Hinson]

Josh Boyer wrote:
>  Hi All,
>  
>  In an effort to get a better understanding of how the Secondary Arch work
>  is progresing in Fedora, FESCo would like to get some information on how
>  things currently are, what work is being done, etc.
>  
>  To start with, a brief recap of where your Arch is at compared to the
>  primary arches would be great.  Feel free to highlight any hurdles that
>  are in the way, etc.
>  
>  Ideally, we'd like to get this information about once a month in a brief
>  status report.  For now there is nothing formal required.  Our hope is that
>  as we continue to grow in this area, we can better coordinate with the other
>  Fedora groups (like Rel-Eng) and make sure we have smooth Secondary Arch
>  releases, etc.
>  
>  Thanks for you time and I look forward to hearing from you.
>  
>  josh 
(resend to correct lists)

s390:

We have a full F9 tree and working install images created from a 
manually patched anaconda.  Currently finalizing patches to anaconda and 
initscripts to get installable images automatically through pungi.  Next 
steps include finalized buildinstall/initrd patch, package signing, and 
integration with http://secondary.fedoraproject.org .

Koji hub is up with two builders, s390x (64-bit) only.  Have begun 
building F10 packages for buildroot.

Dan created the fedora-s390x mailing list today.

-- 
Brad Hinson <bhinson(a)redhat.com&gt;
Sr. Support Engineer Lead, System z
Red Hat, Inc.
[phone]
www.redhat.com/z

[Manas Saksena]

On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 5:57 AM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  Hi All,
>
>  In an effort to get a better understanding of how the Secondary Arch work
>  is progresing in Fedora, FESCo would like to get some information on how
>  things currently are, what work is being done, etc.
>
>  To start with, a brief recap of where your Arch is at compared to the
>  primary arches would be great.  Feel free to highlight any hurdles that
>  are in the way, etc.
>
>  Ideally, we'd like to get this information about once a month in a brief
>  status report.  For now there is nothing formal required.  Our hope is that
>  as we continue to grow in this area, we can better coordinate with the other
>  Fedora groups (like Rel-Eng) and make sure we have smooth Secondary Arch
>  releases, etc.
>
>  Thanks for you time and I look forward to hearing from you.
>
>  josh 
For ARM architecture...

We had a reasonably complete F8 build, but the project stalled after that
and we never built F9, although many of the patches that were needed to
build successfully made it into the fedora cvs.

We are now in the process of building F10 packages, and hopefully will
catch up with the current development.

We are not yet integrated into the secondary-arch infrastructure. Not sure
what the state of the secondary-arch infrastructure support (koji etc.) is, &
what will be needed to integrate into it.

Regards,
Manas