Fedora 22 Beta TC2 for POWER

[Timo Schöler]

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On 04/08/2015 11:28 AM, Laurent Vivier wrote:
> 
>> Le 8 avril 2015 à 10:57, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com> a
>> écrit :
>> 
>> 
>> Hi Laurent,
>> 
>> Welcome, firstly please most to the list, not to me. I'm likely
>> not the person to answer your questions ;-)
>> 
> So: Hi everyone,
> 
>> 
>>> I'm new on the mailing list. I've a powermac G5 and I'd really
>>> like to improve the installer as it does not work correctly for
>>> Fedora 19/20/21.
>> 
>> Could you elaborate? Is it device G5 specific
>> 
> On F19, I think it was : yaboot was not installed correctly and I
> was unable to boot from HDD.
> 
> On 20, too, during the install there was a dependency on yaboot
> that cannot be resolved

Showed up even earlier than F19, maybe this fits?

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=876625

> On 21, a dependency on glib that cannot be resolved, which is
> strange if it works on other platforms.

Like this?

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ppc/2014-October/003055.html

> Moreover, it seems behaviour differs between text installer and 
> graphical installer (VNC, as "nouveau" driver seems totally broken
> on powermac, an endian issue, I guess)
> 
>> 
>>> How many time I have to test this Beta ?
>> 
>> As many times as you feel necessary on the test matrix?
>> 
>>> Do you know if the kernel on the ISO supports the PowerMac G5
>>> SMU ?
>> It is
>>> very unpleasant to work with 5 fan at full speed behind the
>>> desk ;-)
>> 
>> I've no idea what that is, that's definitely for someone else.
>> 
> Is someone else has the answer ? ;-)
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Laurent

Regards,

Timo


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