Re: F40 Change Proposal: Optimized Binaries for the AMD64 Architecture (System-Wide)

Hi, On 12/28/23 10:12, Aoife Moloney wrote: Wiki -> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Optimized_Binaries_for_the_AMD64_Architecture This is a proposed Change for Fedora Linux. This document represents a proposed Change. As part of the Changes process, proposals are publicly announced in

Re: F40 Change Proposal: Unified Kernel Support Phase Two (System-Wide)

Hi, On 12/18/23 06:41, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: On Fri, Dec 15, 2023 at 02:03:27PM -0600, Jeremy Linton wrote: Hi, Phase 2 goals * Add support for booting UKIs directly. ** Boot path is shim.efi -> UKI, without any boot loader (grub, sd-boot) involved. This is IMHO a mist

Re: F40 Change Proposal: Unified Kernel Support Phase Two (System-Wide)

Hi, On 12/5/23 14:38, Aoife Moloney wrote: This document represents a proposed Change. As part of the Changes process, proposals are publicly announced in order to receive community feedback. This proposal will only be implemented if approved by the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee. ==

Re: F40 Change Proposal: Unified Kernel Support Phase Two (System-Wide)

Hi, On 12/6/23 11:26, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote: Gerd Hoffmann writes: Hi, Does that mean that the Linux EFI boot code knows how to call back to shim to get the certificates instead of reading the firmware directly? No. The linux efi stub doesn't need that. shim.efi does: (a) Set

Re: zlib-ng as a compat replacement for zlib

Hi, On 8/6/23 08:33, John Reiser wrote: On 8/6/23 02:00, Peter Robinson wrote: We tried to pull some of the optimisations in some time ago to the Fedora package and they caused some issues with compatibility. Please provide *any* documentation!  Such as: the dates the work was performed,

Re: F39 Change Proposal: Clean Systemd-boot installs (Self-Contained_

Hi, Thanks for looking at this, and sorry about the delay I was on PTO for a few days. On 6/28/23 09:15, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: On Thu, Jun 22, 2023 at 12:24:04PM -0500, Jeremy Linton wrote: But, IMHO the largest change is moving the boot kernel/initrd to the ESP, rather than the use

OT: Re: F40 Change: Privacy-preserving Telemetry for Fedora Workstation (System-Wide)

On 7/10/23 13:16, Demi Marie Obenour wrote: On 7/10/23 02:30, Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote: On 10/07/2023 02:49, Demi Marie Obenour wrote: QtWebEngine (used by Falkon) was a month or more behind upstream Chromium last I checked. Qt5QtWebEngine is an extremely vulnerable thing. It still

Re: F40 Change: Privacy-preserving Telemetry for Fedora Workstation (System-Wide)

Hi, On 7/6/23 11:10, Aoife Moloney wrote: Important process note: we are experimenting with using Fedora (trimming stuff because this proposal is huge) We intend to deploy the Endless OS metrics system. [https://blogs.gnome.org/wjjt/2023/07/05/endless-oss-privacy-preserving-metrics-system/

Re: F39 Change Proposal: Clean Systemd-boot installs (Self-Contained_

Hi, On 6/22/23 12:28, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/cleanup_systemd_install == Detailed Description == As a first pass, the 'inst.sdboot' option already in anaconda should work. As it stands, that replaces grub+shim with the systemd-boot loader,

Re: F39 Change Proposal: Clean Systemd-boot installs (Self-Contained_

Hi, On 6/23/23 05:27, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: == Detailed Description == As a first pass, the 'inst.sdboot' option already in anaconda should work. As it stands, that replaces grub+shim with the systemd-boot loader, and moves the kernel + initrd to the EFI system partition (ESP). It doesn't

Re: F39 Change Proposal: Clean Systemd-boot installs (Self-Contained_

Hi, On 6/22/23 12:28, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/cleanup_systemd_install == Detailed Description == As a first pass, the 'inst.sdboot' option already in anaconda should work. As it stands, that replaces grub+shim with the systemd-boot loader,

Re: F39 Change Proposal: Clean Systemd-boot installs (Self-Contained_

Hi, On 6/22/23 11:21, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: On Thu, Jun 22, 2023 at 04:59:38PM +0100, Aoife Moloney wrote: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/cleanup_systemd_install This document represents a proposed Change. As part of the Changes process, proposals are publicly announced in order

Re: U-Boot for x86 BIOS systems

Hi, On 5/22/23 06:01, Neal Gompa wrote: On Mon, May 22, 2023 at 6:57 AM Gerd Hoffmann wrote: Hi, But could we use U-Boot to fill in this gap so these systems still work? We'd then treat x86 like ARM (if no UEFI, use U-Boot UEFI). How does u-boot handle EFI variables in that case?

Re: Making systemd-boot option available for installation?

Hi, On 6/5/23 03:24, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: On Fri, Jun 02, 2023 at 05:25:22PM -0700, Luya Tshimbalanga wrote: Hello team, I would like to bring back the topic related to the selection of bootloader notably either GRUB2 and systemd-boot. With the recent adoption on UKI kernel, it

Re: SPECfiles - conditionals with EOLed Fedora releases - any value in keeping them ?

On 1/19/23 04:52, Michal Schorm wrote: Hello, While playing around with Sourcegraph, which indexed all Fedora package repositories, I was able to craft a query listing all '%if' conditionals referencing Fedora releases that reached EOL.

Re: F37 proposal: Add -fno-omit-frame-pointer to default compilation flags (System-Wide Change proposal)

Hi, On 6/16/22 15:53, Ben Cotton wrote: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/fno-omit-frame-pointer This document represents a proposed Change. As part of the Changes process, proposals are publicly announced in order to receive community feedback. This proposal will only be implemented if

Re: F37 Change: Deprecate Legacy BIOS (System-Wide Change proposal)

Hi, On 5/2/22 22:53, Chris Murphy wrote: On Mon, May 2, 2022 at 5:29 PM Jeremy Linton wrote: On 4/6/22 12:57, Neal Gompa wrote: (trimming) * NVIDIA graphics * Broadcom wireless The former case is excessively common, and the latter case is fairly common with HP and Dell machines as well

Re: F37 Change: Deprecate Legacy BIOS (System-Wide Change proposal)

On 4/6/22 12:57, Neal Gompa wrote: (trimming) * NVIDIA graphics * Broadcom wireless The former case is excessively common, and the latter case is fairly common with HP and Dell machines as well as some smaller OEMs. I literally helped someone this past week with both[1][2][3]. The Workstation

Re: Any recent changes to the arm builders?

Hi, On 8/17/21 2:06 AM, Florian Weimer wrote: * Jeremy Linton: That said, there as you mention various rpm/package build/etc problems caused by `uname -m` returning armv8. Is this something that can be changed with setarch? It works on other architectures (at least on x86 and POWER

Re: Any recent changes to the arm builders?

Hi, On 8/16/21 12:55 AM, Florian Weimer wrote: * Kevin Fenzi: On Sun, Aug 15, 2021 at 01:51:16PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: * Kevin Fenzi: Yes. They were mistakenly running the normal kernel (so they had ~3GB memory available). I moved them back to the lpae kernel (so they see 40GB

Re: F35 Change: Drop the the "Allow SSH root login with password" option from the installer GUI (Self-Contained Change proposal)

Hi, On 5/17/21 2:26 PM, Martin Kolman wrote: On Sat, 2021-05-15 at 17:53 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 5/14/21 2:50 PM, Martin Kolman wrote: On Thu, 2021-05-13 at 20:09 +0200, Peter Boy wrote: We discussed that in the Fedora Server Edition Working Group and opted to leave it as is for

Re: F35 Change: Drop the the "Allow SSH root login with password" option from the installer GUI (Self-Contained Change proposal)

Hi, On 5/14/21 1:05 AM, Juha Tuomala wrote: On Thursday, 13 May 2021 18:50:33 EEST PGNet Dev wrote: On 5/13/21 10:48 AM, Juha Tuomala wrote: Virtual machine installation is hopefully a special use case and majority of installations are bare metal end users. hardly. here, Sure. But this

Re: Fedora 34 Change: Enable btrfs transparent zstd compression by default (System-Wide Change proposal)

Hi, On 2/14/21 2:20 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Sat, Feb 13, 2021 at 9:45 PM Jeremy Linton wrote: Hi, On 2/11/21 11:05 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 9:58 AM Jeremy Linton wrote: Hi, On 1/1/21 8:59 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: Anyway, compress=zstd:1 is a good default

Re: Fedora 35 Change proposal: POWER 4k page size (System-Wide Change proposal)

Hi, On 2/13/21 10:41 PM, Tom Seewald wrote: > The GPUs also have firmware blobs Could you provide some links to mailing list posts or bug reports where AMD developers confirm that their GPU firmware requires 4k pages? I think having some definitive sources will make this situation more

Re: Fedora 34 Change: Enable btrfs transparent zstd compression by default (System-Wide Change proposal)

Hi, On 2/11/21 11:05 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 9:58 AM Jeremy Linton wrote: Hi, On 1/1/21 8:59 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: Anyway, compress=zstd:1 is a good default. Everyone benefits, and I'm not even sure someone with a very fast NVMe drive will notice a slow down

Re: Ars claims: Fedora 32 is sluggish

Hi, On 2/5/21 3:03 AM, Roberto Ragusa wrote: On 2/4/21 9:52 PM, Alexander Ploumistos wrote: considerable lag. In the last 4 or so years I remember issues with tracker, gnome-shell, mutter/clutter and friends on specific GPUs, default or popular shell extensions and dbus services. A recent bug

Re: Fedora 34 Change: Enable btrfs transparent zstd compression by default (System-Wide Change proposal)

Hi, On 1/1/21 8:59 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Fri, Jan 1, 2021 at 11:31 AM Artem Tim wrote: It's faster. Here is some benchmark with different zstd compression ratios https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/1/28/1930. Could be outdated a little bit though. But for HDD it makes sense to increase it

Re: Fwd: Re: CppunitTest_sw_htmlexport failing due to zlib variation?

Hi, On 8/28/20 1:38 AM, Stephan Bergmann wrote: All, The below question came up in the context of a LibreOffice unit test, where LibreOffice writes out a PNG image (involving zlib for compression) and the test checked the exact sequence of bytes, which failed on aarch64 when using Fedora's

Re: Fedora 32 aarch64 build failures on copr

On 7/28/20 4:39 PM, Jeff Law wrote: On Tue, 2020-07-28 at 15:29 -0500, Michael Catanzaro wrote: On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 2:01 pm, Jeff Law wrote: If this is a new failure (say in the last week), it could be an out of memory scenario. Try disabling LTO. The standard way to do that is %define

Re: Upcoming Fedora 33 Change proposal deadlines

Hi, On 7/17/20 9:07 AM, Ben Cotton wrote: This is the final reminder of the Fedora 33 Change proposal deadlines: * 2020-07-21: Proposal deadline for Self-Contained Changes The mass rebuild is scheduled to begin next week as well. For the full schedule, see

Re: Fedora 33 System-Wide Change proposal: Aarch64 Pointer Authentication & Branch Target Enablement

Arm machines. Is there some noticeable performance drop or anything like that? Potentially, please see my longer response in the other email. == Owner == * Name: [[User:jlinton| Jeremy Linton]] & ARM SIG * Email: jeremy.lin...@arm.com == Benefit to Fedora == PAC & BTI are co

Re: Fedora 33 System-Wide Change proposal: Aarch64 Pointer Authentication & Branch Target Enablement

Hi, On 5/19/20 1:38 PM, Przemek Klosowski via devel wrote: On 5/18/20 3:36 PM, Ben Cotton wrote: Arm Pointer Authentication (PAC) is a method of hardening code from Return Oriented Programming (ROP) attacks. It uses a tag in a pointer to sign and verify pointers. Branch Target Identification

Re: Previous awesome background images

Hi, On 4/17/20 4:43 PM, Miro Hrončok wrote: On 17. 04. 20 16:07, Kamil Paral wrote: I'm disappointed with default wallpapers in the latest releases. I wonder if we could go back to more artistic images from previous releases? Here are some of my favorite ones:

Re: Fwd: Re: Fedora27: NFS v4 terrible write performance, is async working

On 01/31/2018 09:49 AM, J. Bruce Fields wrote: On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 01:52:49PM -0600, Jeremy Linton wrote: Have you tried this with a '-o nfsvers=3' during mount? Did that help? I noticed a large decrease in my kernel build times across NFS/lan a while back after a machine/kernel/10g

Re: Fwd: Re: Fedora27: NFS v4 terrible write performance, is async working

Hi, On 01/30/2018 01:03 PM, Terry Barnaby wrote: Being a daredevil, I have used the NFS async option for 27 years without an issue on multiple systems :) I have just mounted my ext4 disk with the same options you were using and the same NFS export options and the speed here looks the same

Re: Stuck maxima builds on aarch64

Hi, On 03/21/2017 07:33 AM, Jerry James wrote: On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 2:05 PM, Jerry James wrote: I'm really not sure what to check next. If an aarch64 box for packagers will be available in the not too distant future, I will try to debug this. Thanks for the