Fedora PPC status & work in progress :)

[Dan Horák]

Josh Boyer píše v Čt 28. 04. 2011 v 13:20 -0400: 
> On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 9:15 AM, Phil Knirsch <pknirsch at redhat.com> wrote:
> > Hi everyone.
> >
> > Just wanted to give you all a brief heads up that Fedora on PPC as a
> > secondary arch is still alive and kicking and no dead horse!
> >
> > On a more serious note, we've recently been catching up to the current
> > Fedora 15 packages after PowerPC moved to secondary arch status after
> > Fedora 12. This took a while, but thanks to pretty powerful builders and
> > concentrated effort from the PowerPC team we've gotten pretty close to
> > catching up by now.
> >
> > The current focus is to get the installer to work properly again. With
> > the switch to Lorax, the new unified initrd and other changes we hit a
> > few problems recently, but at least we've had a successful install with
> > the latest mash trees on a Power7 machine recently via DVD [1].
> >
> > Discussions are still ongoing on how to solve the unified initrd size
> > problem though as currently for Power6 or Power5 the new initrd is just
> > too large to ever work, even if it would be better compressed. So we
> > might have to go back to a 2 stage install process for PowerPC at least,
> > but very likely with a dracut based 1st stage then.
> 
> As noted on IRC, the DVD doesn't support ppc32 machines.  Are those
> being dropped, or is it simply a temporary omission?
> 
> On a similar note, it seems the preference for packages is now ppc64
> whereas in prior Fedora releases ppc was the perferred arch, even on
> 64-bit machines.  RHEL 6 (and SLES 11) have made that changed, but it
> was rejected by FESCo prior to PowerPC being dropped as a primary
> architecture.  Has the preference changed to 64-bit permanently?

we can decide it ourselves now, so I'd go with 2 branches - ppc (32-bit)
to satisfy people with eg. Mac G4 hardware and ppc64 (with 64-bit as
preferred and 32-bit as compat, it's a known fact that Fedora serves as
RHEL upstream) for G5s and IBM servers/workstations.


Dan