Fedora PPC status & work in progress :)

[Timo Schoeler]

On 04/28/2011 11:47 PM, Karsten Hopp wrote:
> Am 28.04.2011 20:24, schrieb David Woodhouse:
>> On Thu, 2011-04-28 at 13:36 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Additional items to cover are:
>>>
>>> 1) Are ppc32 machines supported? Specifically I'm thinking of Apple
>>> G4 machines, but we used to build a bunch of Freescale device drivers
>>> and such as well for machines in the 6xx class.
>>
>> We should definitely continue to support ppc32 machines. There are a
>> *lot* of embedded ppc32 machines around.
>>
>>> 2) Which machine type are supported? Seems POWER7, possibly POWER6
>>> and 5. I would imagine we would want to explicitly drop PS3 support
>>> given it's limited memory (vs initrd) and the fact that it's not
>>> really sustainable as a machine due to firmware changes. However, do
>>> we support Apple G5 and Powerstation machines? (I think yes, but it's
>>> unclear).
>>
>
>
> Well, as I have an Apple G5 and even created the mentioned DVD iso on it
> I will be quite unhappy if I can't install the latest Fedora on it.
> Looks good so far, even the big initrd isn't an issue on that machine as
> long
> as I don't try a network install (tftp limitations)
>
> .....
>
>> What packages still *don't* build in the 64-bit versions, and would be
>> missing (or bizarrely 32-bit-only) if we have 64-bit as the primary arch
>> on ppc64?
>  >
>  > We were typically just not caring about the PPC64 ExcludeArch tracker
>  > bug, although I have a distinct recollection of getting drunk in a
>  > Shanghai hotel room at one point and doing OCaml support. Is that still
>  > in the Fedora packages?
>  >
>
> Fortunately your ppc64 ocaml patch still works, although it got deleted on
> the primary archs.
> You don't happen to be in Germany anytime soon ? If getting you drunk
> results
> in a 64bit yaboot I'm sure I'll find a nice pub somewhere around here ;-)

Hey guys,

where in Germany are you (or anybody else on this list) located, 
approximately?

Timo

> Creating 64bit images with an additional 32bit glibc just for yaboot is
> suboptimal, but seems to work so far.
> I stil need to convince mash to pull that in during the compose, though.
> I'd appreciate it if someone could have a look at yaboot, but if that's too
> much work we can keep it that way while waiting for grub2.
>
>
> Karsten