On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Dan Horák <d...@danny.cz> wrote: >> > 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. >> >> As noted on IRC, the DVD doesn't support ppc32 machines. Are those >> being dropped, or is it simply a temporary omission? >> >> On a similar note, it seems the preference for packages is now ppc64 >> whereas in prior Fedora releases ppc was the perferred arch, even on >> 64-bit machines. RHEL 6 (and SLES 11) have made that changed, but it >> was rejected by FESCo prior to PowerPC being dropped as a primary >> architecture. Has the preference changed to 64-bit permanently? > > we can decide it ourselves now, so I'd go with 2 branches - ppc (32-bit) > to satisfy people with eg. Mac G4 hardware and ppc64 (with 64-bit as > preferred and 32-bit as compat, it's a known fact that Fedora serves as > RHEL upstream) for G5s and IBM servers/workstations.
I think it would be beneficial to spend a bit of time documenting the supported hardware and composition going forward. I have no personal preference on the bit-size issue, but it wasn't communicated on the list prior to my asking. Additional items to cover are: 1) Are ppc32 machines supported? Specifically I'm thinking of Apple G4 machines, but we used to build a bunch of Freescale device drivers and such as well for machines in the 6xx class. 2) Which machine type are supported? Seems POWER7, possibly POWER6 and 5. I would imagine we would want to explicitly drop PS3 support given it's limited memory (vs initrd) and the fact that it's not really sustainable as a machine due to firmware changes. However, do we support Apple G5 and Powerstation machines? (I think yes, but it's unclear). 3) Which arch is the primary on 64-bit (seems ppc64) josh -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
