On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 6:40 PM, Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 05/09/2009 07:20 PM, David Woodhouse wrote: >> We still don't have any secondary architectures gearing up to ship >> Fedora 11 -- it would be really interesting to know why that is. >> >> What technical barriers are still there -- why don't we have a release >> yet? > > For SPARC, there are a few barriers: > > * Amount of code writing contributors is very small. Realistically, it > is me and Dennis Gilmore. This significantly slows down efforts in areas > where we need to do more than perform basic package triage, e.g. > anaconda. We have 99% of a Fedora 8 Tree done, but there are still > enough painful bugs and missing features in anaconda that prevent us > from doing a release. > * Automated builds are not yet happening, although, when Dennis gets > back from vacation, I'm going to work with him to setup koji-shadow to > run on an aggressive cron job. I'd still like to see someone solve this > problem correctly with a message bus, but as I have neither the skillset > nor the time to do this, it will likely never happen. Which leads us to > the next barrier: > * The few SPARC contributors have very little time to allocate to the > SPARC effort. Neither of us are paid to do full-time SPARC, and I've got > my fingers in so many pies, I might as well be a pie. This isn't a > technical barrier, per se, merely pointing out that being responsible > for an architecture is a LOT of work. Not to mention that Sun is about > to get swallowed up by Oracle, who I doubt will be overly concerned > about Linux/SPARC, so it is even less likely that we will see additional > code help or community involvement from them (as a contrast to IBM on > PPC/S390). > > ~spot > There isn't a lot of information on the SPARC wiki page. Is there a currently a way to install Fedora on a SPARC so I can try it out? -- Mat Booth www.matbooth.co.uk -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
