On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 03:12:13PM +0000, Peter Robinson wrote: > On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 2:53 PM, Bruno Wolff III <bruno@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 09:14:52 -0500, > > Jeffrey Ollie <jeff@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > >> Yesterday a bunch of bugs were opened up regarding aarch64 support in > >> some packages. I'd like to do my part in fixing these, but is there a > >> way to actually run test builds? I know that there's ARM support in > >> the works, but I haven't really kept up with the details. > > > > > > I was going to ask the same question. > > At the moment there is not. We're working on the platform bring up and > in the coming weeks there will an initial Fedora 19 based image > released that will be able to run on the free ARM Foundation model > [1]. Eventually there will be hardware available but I'm not sure when > that will be as there's not been anything publicly announced. > Ultimately we're very much in the prep stages for a mass rebuild of > Fedora for aarch64 when we eventually get actual HW, at the moment a > build of something like gcc takes days. > > Peter > > [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/AArch64/FoundationModel Peter, I spent a few minutes searching for details of AArch64, such as its endianness and what processor features (ie. 'flags' in /proc/cpuinfo) it has. It seems the endianness is switchable like MIPS, which I guess is a good thing. What endianness will Fedora use? What about other Linux distros? Do you know what processor features ('flags') will be available in the first shipping hardware? Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-df lists disk usage of guests without needing to install any software inside the virtual machine. Supports Linux and Windows. http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/ -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
