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?
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