> Hi
> We briefly discussed priorities for Fedora 22 and I had taken an
> action item to start an email conversation about this. So here is
> what I would like to see for Fedora 22.
>
> 1) Get the -mcpu and -mtune flags set properly for the LE build.
> Should be -mcpu=power7 -mtune=power8
done, all packages that honour the Fedora system wide compiler flags
use them, if they don't it's a packaging bug
> 2) Have a cloud image available
> 3) For BE I would like another subarch. Same packages as the current
> one but tuned for P8.
you mean in addition to ppc64p7? can't we just switch ppc64p7 from
-mcpu=power7 -mtune=power7 to -mcpu=power7 -mtune=power8?
This makes sense to me as it then mirrors what we have in ppc64le and
it saves having more targets.
> 4) Looking into if we can get Docker enabled for POWER. I will
send
> out further emails about this as
> soon as I know more about the current development state
> 5) Start the ground work for a workstation release. But I think we
> should target the release for Fedora-23.
yeah, the deadlines in F-22 won't give us enough time to work on it
Agreed, ultimately all the packages are built and as a result it's
possible to install and test all the main components of Workstation
for those that actually have desktop capable hardware to do any
development/testing/debug that is required to ensure all the
underlying workstation components and dependencies are in a good state
for Fedora 23.
It's likely there will be work needed on the X stack components like
mesa etc to ensure all is working.
> I seem to remember hearing that there is a quite a lot of
work
> involved to get this build going.
we should have almost everything built (eg. LibreOffice is known to fail
to build), but it's not tested and if broken, it will need to be fixed
One thing to not forgot is that also the mainline kernel needs to have
the necessary support for the workstation class hw.
I think the biggest thing will be the graphics stack. While all the
workstation bits are built I doubt they've had wide and varied testing
to ensure they're al sufficiently optimised and robust for a good
Workstation experience.
Peter