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
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
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.
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
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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.
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 5:57 AM, Josh Boyer jwboyer@gmail.com 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
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