ARM delivery?

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Thu May 29 20:13:33 UTC 2014


On Thu, 2014-05-29 at 15:40 -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
> On 05/29/2014 03:32 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > So, I'm a bit surprised I didn't notice this before, but...our PRD 
> > states:
> > 
> > "Fedora Server will produce two main installation resources, a 
> > netinstall image and an offline install iso image that allows one
> > to install and configure featured roles offline."
> > 
> > However, this doesn't really cover how we do ARM installations, or
> > at least not how we've done them so far. We provide disk image
> > files for most ARM platforms; only one ARM platform so far (AIUI)
> > supports use of anaconda.
> > 
> > Is ARM a target arch for Server? If we say "no", well, is that
> > okay? What does it mean for ARM's "primary arch" status in Fedora?
> > If we say "yes", I guess we have to add ARM disk image media to our
> > 'delivery mechanisms'? Does someone want to talk to the ARM folks
> > about this? Is it going to be me? :)
> > 
> 
> Our Technical Specification[1] states: "Fedora Server will run on and
> provide install media for i686, x86_64, and armv7hl servers."
> 
> So yeah, we have kind of dropped the ball on how we're going to do the
> ARM delivery. Adam, if you wouldn't mind being that liaison, that
> would be really helpful.
> 
> 
> [1]
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Server/Technical_Specification#Supported_Architectures_and_Install_Media

No problem, I've dashed off an email to the ARM list.
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