Fedora 22

[Dan Horák]

On Thu, 15 Jan 2015 12:34:48 +0100
Timo Schöler <timo at riscworks.net> wrote:

> 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.

it should, I have a GXT6500P card in my 9114-275 and I did the tests
before it got accepted in the kernel.

> >> 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