Hi everyone,
How is the development on Fedora for Ia-64?
Here at our lab we received a brand new Itanium2 machine with MegaRaid We want run Fedora on it :) I wanna help in the development of Fedora for IA-64. What should I do? How can I help?
Alan Cox wrote:
On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 05:32:32PM -0300, Lucas Peetz Dulley wrote:
How is the development on Fedora for Ia-64?
I don't think anyone has attempted to port Fedora to IA64.
Really? I thought it was being ported because of the following URL: http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/ia64/
What is this about then?
On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 15:04, Lucas Peetz Dulley wrote:
Alan Cox wrote:
On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 05:32:32PM -0300, Lucas Peetz Dulley wrote:
How is the development on Fedora for Ia-64?
I don't think anyone has attempted to port Fedora to IA64.
Really? I thought it was being ported because of the following URL: http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/ia64/
What is this about then?
Basically it is whatever compiles into SRPMS on the Red Hat Fedora ia64 build system. If it is like the x86_64 and some of the other architectures.. it is looking for someone outside of RH who has the time/energy to do the rest and send the working bits to FedoraCore.
On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 17:04, Lucas Peetz Dulley wrote:
Alan Cox wrote:
On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 05:32:32PM -0300, Lucas Peetz Dulley wrote:
How is the development on Fedora for Ia-64?
I don't think anyone has attempted to port Fedora to IA64.
Really? I thought it was being ported because of the following URL: http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/ia64/
What is this about then?
The packages get built just as a manner of course, our build system builds everything across all of the arches for RHEL (x86, ia64, x86_64, s390, s390x, ppc, ppc64). The critical missing piece really is the kernel and then just making sure things work. The fact that they build is only the first piece of the puzzle :)
Cheers,
Jeremy
On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 05:32:32PM -0300, Lucas Peetz Dulley wrote:
Here at our lab we received a brand new Itanium2 machine with MegaRaid We want run Fedora on it :) I wanna help in the development of Fedora for IA-64. What should I do? How can I help?
the biggest thing holding you back is going to be the lack of a kernel. You might want to grab the latest one, see if it builds, and if not, try and shake out any problems that you may come across.
If there is going to be a FC2 for ia64, it's very unlikely to be a tier 1 architecture however, as currently yours is the first mail I've seen asking for it. Which is quite scary considering I've seen 2-3 requests for an s390 port 8-)
Dave
Dave Jones writes:
If there is going to be a FC2 for ia64, it's very unlikely to be a tier 1 architecture however, as currently yours is the first mail I've seen asking for it. Which is quite scary considering I've seen 2-3 requests for an s390 port 8-)
Why's that surprising? There's definitely more S390s out there than there are IA64's bwaaaaaaahahahahahaha…
Lucas Peetz Dulley (dulley@lsi.usp.br) said:
How is the development on Fedora for Ia-64?
Here at our lab we received a brand new Itanium2 machine with MegaRaid We want run Fedora on it :) I wanna help in the development of Fedora for IA-64. What should I do? How can I help?
Well, it's mainly missing a kernel and testing now. So, get the kernel working, and rawhide will almost certainly be vaguely installable.
Bill
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