Josh Boyer pÃÅe v Ät 28. 04. 2011 v 13:20 -0400: > 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? we can decide it ourselves now, so I'd go with 2 branches - ppc (32-bit) to satisfy people with eg. Mac G4 hardware and ppc64 (with 64-bit as preferred and 32-bit as compat, it's a known fact that Fedora serves as RHEL upstream) for G5s and IBM servers/workstations. Dan -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
