Re: State of PPC in Fedora (esp. OpenPower)
On Mon, 2016-11-21 at 13:13 -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 1:01 PM, Chris Tyler
<ctyler(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> Greetings!
>
> There's some interest here (at Seneca) in Power, specifically OpenPower, and I
was wondering about the state of PPC support in Fedora. From Koji it looks like
there's a good bit of package building activity (mostly
Yes, mostly via shadow for <= f25. Starting with Fedora 26 (rawhide),
arm, aarch64, ppc64, ppc64le, i686, and x86_64 are all in the main
koji hub.
>via shadow), but looking at the mailing lists and wiki things seem really quiet, and
the wiki says there hasn't been a PPC meeting since FUDcon 2013.
The IRC channel is active, but the community is small enough that
holding meetings is somewhat superfluous. The mailing list is quiet
but active.
> Thus a couple of questions...
> - What level of support is there for OpenPower in Fedora PPC? (I'm thinking
about boot processes primarily).
It supports ppc64 with POWER7 and newer, and ppc64le with POWER8 and newer.
> - How much interest in there in PPC generally, and OpenPower in particular?
At this point OpenPOWER systems are socketed with POWER8 processor
modules. So at the application level IBM and OpenPOWER systems are
compatible.
My team is interested, and IBM is as well. We collaborate on issues
frequently.
> - Where is help needed/wanted?
Likely testing. There may be other work to do as well.
What, specifically, is Seneca interested in doing with OpenPower?
josh
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