When are Qemu SPARC/PPC coming back?

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Thu Sep 15 17:33:47 UTC 2011


On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 07:29:09PM -0400, Nathaniel McCallum wrote:
> The context for this question can be found here:
> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/virt-maint/2011-March/002289.html
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=679179
> 
> So the summary is that openbios needs to be compiled on PPC/SPARC and
> then imported to the rest of the repos as noarch.

Did you look into how hard it would be to cross-compile it?  Sounds
better than some sort of build hackery, particularly for users who
might want to build the whole thing from source themselves.  Fedora
contains (multiple) cross-compilers so there is precedent for this.

Rich.

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