Fedora 22 Beta TC2 for POWER

[Timo Schöler]

On 04/08/2015 01:49 PM, Laurent Vivier wrote:
> 
>> Le 8 avril 2015 à 13:28, Timo Schöler <timo at riscworks.net> a
>> écrit :
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 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
>> 
> 
> yes,

Maybe put your information there, too (i.e., that's not fixed and hits
you on your hardware).

>>> 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
>>
>
>> 
> yes,
> 
> 
> If they are known, why is it not fixed ? Can I help ?

Have myself a few, but too busy to dig into 'em deeper:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1205698

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1206582

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1207620

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1207614

>>> 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
>> 
> Thank you Timo.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Laurent

Best,

Timo