Fedora 22 Beta TC2 for POWER

[Al Dunsmuir]

On Thursday, April 9, 2015, 12:26:37 PM, Al Dunsmuir wrote:
> On Wednesday, April 8, 2015, 5:28:17 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 ;-)
>>> 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

> I've  been  collecting  a  few PowerMac G5s and iMac G5s over the last
> year, with the intent of helping improve support in Fedora.
...

> I'm  going  to start work again on the install updates (using F22 as a
> base), so hopefully F23 will be in good shape.

It  is  important that my Anaconda and blivit changes do not break the
existing  primary  arch  (i686, and X86_64) setups, including on Intel
Macs  (which  have  a  whole different set of EFI magic support in the
installer than regular PCs and PPC Macs).

Aside  from regular  PCs, I    have an early Mac Mini with Radeon 9200
graphics  that  I updated from core solo to C2D, and recently acquired
two C2D iMacs (1.83GHz with Intel GMA950 video, and 2.0GHz with Radeon
X1600). All have 32-bit EFI, but I may be able to install as 64-bit on
the iMacs.

I've also got PC video cards to match most chipsets found in PPC Macs.
I figured that will help check for big-endian specific issues.  I hope
to get the Live CD/DVD process worked out for PPC Macs first - it will
be much faster than full installs.

Al