On 28/04/11 14:15, Phil Knirsch wrote:
Hi everyone.
Just wanted to give you all a brief heads up that Fedora on PPC as a secondary arch is
still alive
and kicking and no dead horse!
On a more serious note, we've recently been catching up to the current Fedora 15
packages after
PowerPC moved to secondary arch status after Fedora 12. This took a while, but thanks to
pretty
powerful builders and concentrated effort from the PowerPC team we've gotten pretty
close to
catching up by now.
The current focus is to get the installer to work properly again. With the switch to
Lorax, the new
unified initrd and other changes we hit a few problems recently, but at least we've
had a successful
install with the latest mash trees on a Power7 machine recently via DVD [1].
Discussions are still ongoing on how to solve the unified initrd size problem though as
currently
for Power6 or Power5 the new initrd is just too large to ever work, even if it would be
better
compressed. So we might have to go back to a 2 stage install process for PowerPC at
least, but very
likely with a dracut based 1st stage then.
Due to these installer problems we're probably not going to be able to have an
official PowerPC
release for Fedora 15, but the goal is to definitely get it done for Fedora 16.
Thanks to everyone working on getting PowerPC in Fedora back into shape!
For more information, feel free to visit the Fedora PowerPC wiki:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/PowerPC
Thanks & regards, Phil
[1]
http://ppc.koji.fedoraproject.org/mnt/koji/scratch/karsten/iso/
Hi,
I've looked at the page on PowerPC and it still mentions the PS3, but it seems to be
stuck at Fedora 11.
When you say PPC, do you plan to have it run on the PS3 again?
Cheers