On Mon, 26 Nov 2018 04:17:37 -0600
Bruno Wolff III <bruno(a)wolff.to> wrote:
On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 08:40:44 +0100,
Dan Horák <dan(a)danny.cz> wrote:
>
>primarily we are following upstream (the Linux on Power community)
>with the decision to focus on ppc64le only. Even the latest F-28
>ppc64 missed some features due upstream limitations (eg. the whole
>golang stack, including whole containerization) and it was most
>likely going to be worse and it wouldn't follow the pace happening
>on the LE side.
I would have expected good code to build on either, though it does
seem that unless you can convince a lot of people to build binaries
for both that things will coalesce around one type or the other.
build != work, also if some upstream simply stops supporting ppc64,
then we can do very little about it, when all arches need to be in
sync. Or when a compiler doesn't support features we need.
>Welcome in the Fedora on Power community :-)
I'm thinking of it more as the owner controlled computing community.
Fedora on Power just allows taking advantage of more open systems
than is currently possible on x86_64 and more powerful systems than
you can get with ARM or RISC-V.
yes, being owner controlled is also an important feature
I still have a wait. I couldn't afford either Talos II or Talos
II
Lite, so I need to wait for Blackbird to go into production before I
have a system. And I need to save up a bit to buy the rest of the
system while I'm waiting. The Blackbird tradeoffs to reduce the price
were where I was willing to give up some quality to save money.
Though the 8 core cpu seemed a pretty good deal, so I splurged there.
I'm looking forward to being able to do a kernel bisect in less than
one day, instead of one day per step, when I have problems with new
kernels. _______________________________________________
right, it's a powerful platform, being able to rebuild Firefox in 10-15
minutes using a half of the capacity of my Talos is nice :-)
Dan