Fedora 22

[Timo Schöler]

On 01/15/2015 12:28 PM, Dan Horák wrote:
> 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

Thanks a lot! :)

>> 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

So, everything should work as intended? I'll fire up that machine and
try it.

>> 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

Timo


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