On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 9:15 AM, Phil Knirsch <pknirsch@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi everyone. > > Just wanted to give you all a brief heads up that Fedora on PPC as a > secondary arch is still alive and kicking and no dead horse! > > On a more serious note, we've recently been catching up to the current > Fedora 15 packages after PowerPC moved to secondary arch status after > Fedora 12. This took a while, but thanks to pretty powerful builders and > concentrated effort from the PowerPC team we've gotten pretty close to > catching up by now. > > The current focus is to get the installer to work properly again. With > the switch to Lorax, the new unified initrd and other changes we hit a > few problems recently, but at least we've had a successful install with > the latest mash trees on a Power7 machine recently via DVD [1]. > > Discussions are still ongoing on how to solve the unified initrd size > problem though as currently for Power6 or Power5 the new initrd is just > too large to ever work, even if it would be better compressed. So we > might have to go back to a 2 stage install process for PowerPC at least, > but very likely with a dracut based 1st stage then. As noted on IRC, the DVD doesn't support ppc32 machines. Are those being dropped, or is it simply a temporary omission? On a similar note, it seems the preference for packages is now ppc64 whereas in prior Fedora releases ppc was the perferred arch, even on 64-bit machines. RHEL 6 (and SLES 11) have made that changed, but it was rejected by FESCo prior to PowerPC being dropped as a primary architecture. Has the preference changed to 64-bit permanently? josh -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
