Fedora 22

[Dan Horák]

On Tue, 13 Jan 2015 12:12:00 +0100
Timo Schöler <timo at riscworks.net> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> If there ever was a CentOS7 option for POWER 
> >>
> >> There's chatting about this, yes.
> >>
> >> Last year I started on porting CentOS 5 onto Power, but got stuck
> >> due to lack of spare time.
> >>
> >>> I suspect they would take
> >>> the same options for RHEL, and POWER6 dates back to 06/07 so
> >>> define old.
> >>
> >> Sure. At least a Power 5 box isn't that old it would be the same
> >> category as a Sun SPARCstation 20, which is still supported by
> >> OpenBSD, e.g.
> >>
> >> What may be of importance is that the 285 is the last *real*
> >> workstation, AFAIK.
> >>
> >> Would happily buy a new workstation by IBM or the OpenPower
> >> consortium, too! :)
> >>
> >> I am indeed just installing Final Release Candidate 6 (RC6)
> >>
> >> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ppc/2014-December/003199.html
> >>
> >> http://riscworks.net/static/Fedora/f21_285.jpg
> > 
> > Timo, how did the install go? Was is it as straightforward as
> > placing a DVD in the drive and run?
> 
> Hi, yes, I just re-tested it with the most recent image and a 9111-285
> (see dmesg etc attached). Works like a charm.

sounds great and I've already updated the hardware section in the
release notes

> I used the GUI installer (not remote, using VNC, but really with
> screen and keyboard), which works well. Even without any palette
> mismatch, what I always got after first reboot.
> 
> I *think* the guys from cruxppc had a patch here, a friend of mine

there was a patch to "Add GXT4000P and GXT6500P support to the gxt4500
driver" which is now in the mainline kernel for some time

> told me. I usually use console/network to work on that machine, my
> friend wants to use it as a real workstation, with GUI. AFAIR, the
> GXT6500P is supported by the kernel. I'll have a look at this -- if
> nobody has a hint here, I may open a bug report on this.


		Dan