On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 7:32 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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? We will be using little endian. All ARM processors have the ability to switch endianness. > Do you know what processor features ('flags') will be available in the > first shipping hardware? Nope, although I will find out, what particular bits do you need to know, or just all of them? Peter -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
