On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Jesse Keating <jkeating@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I know that last week several ppc people (IBM, etc) expressed alarm and >> concern about the demotion of ppc to a secondary arch. Most of those people >> I pointed at Bill and Jesse who were staffing the fedora booth. >> >> Did we get any positive feedback/offers of help from them? >> >> Ric >> >> > > > No. They heard that here would be a secondary arch effort and seemed to > think "oh, they will fix it for us". Seems to be the running theme. People > want ppc to stick around but nobody wants to work on it. That's why > secondary arch seems right. People who care can work on it but lack of care > won't hold Fedora back. Keep in mind that many upstreams (most?) don't have > access or care about ppc. In the nonserver world ppc is dead. > That is sadly true, even of Apple (PPC support is dropped from Snow Leopard, and their LLVM framework is more buggy on PPC -- fastcall does not work, etc. A lot of maintainers probably do care that their software does not have broken assumptions about endianness, so it would be nice that, for a given package N-V-R, we can see both the primary and secondary Kojis' build results. Regards, -- Michel Alexandre Salim -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
