On 09/14/2011 07:29 PM, Nathaniel McCallum wrote: > The context for this question can be found here: > http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/virt-maint/2011-March/002289.html > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=679179 > > So the summary is that openbios needs to be compiled on PPC/SPARC and > then imported to the rest of the repos as noarch. Spot spoke with Josh > Boyer who noted that PPC was prep-only (no longer true) and concluded > based upon this two person conversation that PPC should be dropped > since it wasn't useful for Fedora purposes (mainly the PPC port). No > conversation was had about SPARC (which had the same problem) and it > was dropped as well. In short, the bug didn't get very wide attention > and support was dropped for two features in order to push the Beta > release. All of this I'm actually fine with. > > What I'm not fine with is that there seems to be no desire to bring > these packages back. I spoke with several Red Hat virt people and the > consensus was that SPARC/PPC "don't work." I beg to differ. I am > building asm software on them right now. They are an invaluable > software testing platform, even with their relative age. > > So in short, can we please bring back SPARC/PPC? At least for SPARC, there is no reason to enable it. It simply does not work at all for SPARC64, and it doesn't do anything useful on SPARC32. ~tom == Fedora Project -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
