Re: Quick update PPC status
On 06/03/2011 05:32 PM, Robert Knight wrote: On 06/01/2011 12:53 PM, Phil Knirsch wrote: Things have been progressing nicely and we now even have 2 mash trees with install images for testing available for, one for ppc, the other for ppc64: http://ppc.koji.fedoraproject.org/mnt/koji/mash/15/ Those are our current development trees, so things might be broken at times. Also the rpms aren't signed as we're changing stuff to fast and this isn't a release. Greetings. I thank the team for this very large amount of good work. I've tried various installations with the resources mentioned on the pages referenced with mixed success. When I've checked the bugzilla, I do not find any of the problems that I've encountered reported. Is it fruitful to report difficulties with the iso's at the temporary location? I've started with testing on Mac G5's and did not succeed (font problems, followed by a Python crash.) I have succeeded in upgrading a Fedora 12 small installation with the mash rpms, using the standard Fedora yum upgrade, but I needed to install the 64 bit kernel before it would boot. How can I help this valuable effort go forward? Hi Robert. Thank you for your interest and willingness to help. The easiest way to reach the folks working on the PPC support in Fedora is either via the mailinglist[1] or even more direct via IRC on freenode[2]. Keep in mind though that at least Dan Horak, Karsten Hopp, Adrian Reber and Jiri Skala are located in Europe, so depending on your timezone you might have more luck with the mailinglist. We'll be adding tracker bugs for the various secondary archs for which we want to do a release for Fedora 16 in the next few days, so if you find an issue you can then link it to those tracker bugs. Thanks again! Regards, Phil [1] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/fedora-ppc [2] IRC: #fedora-ppc on irc.freenode.net -- Philipp Knirsch | Tel.: +49-711-96437-470 Supervisor Core Services | Fax.: +49-711-96437-111 Red Hat GmbH | Email: Phil Knirsch pknir...@redhat.com Hauptstaetterstr. 58 | Web: http://www.redhat.com/ D-70178 Stuttgart, Germany -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
Re: Quick update PPC status
On Wednesday, June 01, 2011 12:48:36 PM David Woodhouse wrote: On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 18:53 +0200, Phil Knirsch wrote: We have tested them on a Power7 box as well as on an older Apple G5, but your mileage may vary. Especially on Power5 and Power6 the problem still exists that the unified initramfs of Anaconda is too large to fit into the initial RAM during bootup, so you'll need to revert to the method described in the next paragraph. Have we actually switched all userspace to 64-bit on 64-bit machines? That would exacerbate the initrd size issue quite a lot, wouldn't it? As well as being significantly less well-tested than the 32-bit support was. if so this is exactly the same as what rhel6 does Are the ExcludeArch trackers still up to date for ppc and ppc64? Is there an estimate of how many packages are not built for ppc64 that *are* built for ppc32? -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
Quick update PPC status
Hi everyone. It's been roughly a month since the last update, so i wanted to send out a quick update of where we are. Things have been progressing nicely and we now even have 2 mash trees with install images for testing available for, one for ppc, the other for ppc64: http://ppc.koji.fedoraproject.org/mnt/koji/mash/15/ Those are our current development trees, so things might be broken at times. Also the rpms aren't signed as we're changing stuff to fast and this isn't a release. We have tested them on a Power7 box as well as on an older Apple G5, but your mileage may vary. Especially on Power5 and Power6 the problem still exists that the unified initramfs of Anaconda is too large to fit into the initial RAM during bootup, so you'll need to revert to the method described in the next paragraph. If you want to go a bit of a safer route you can try out an upgrade from Fedora 12 to Fedora 15. Dan Horak has described how to do this in a blog entry he wrote: http://sharkcz.livejournal.com/8649.html It's quite a bit of manual work, but it's pretty straight forward what to do. So feel free to give that a shot if you want to try that way instead of a fresh install with the mash images and trees. As stated previously, we won't be doing an official Fedora 15 release, it's just not ready yet. But Fedora 16 is definitely planed and currently on track. Current state of the work can always be found here, as usual: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/PowerPC Thanks regards, Phil -- Philipp Knirsch | Tel.: +49-711-96437-470 Supervisor Core Services | Fax.: +49-711-96437-111 Red Hat GmbH | Email: Phil Knirsch pknir...@redhat.com Hauptstaetterstr. 58 | Web: http://www.redhat.com/ D-70178 Stuttgart, Germany -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
Re: Quick update PPC status
On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 18:53 +0200, Phil Knirsch wrote: We have tested them on a Power7 box as well as on an older Apple G5, but your mileage may vary. Especially on Power5 and Power6 the problem still exists that the unified initramfs of Anaconda is too large to fit into the initial RAM during bootup, so you'll need to revert to the method described in the next paragraph. Have we actually switched all userspace to 64-bit on 64-bit machines? That would exacerbate the initrd size issue quite a lot, wouldn't it? As well as being significantly less well-tested than the 32-bit support was. Are the ExcludeArch trackers still up to date for ppc and ppc64? Is there an estimate of how many packages are not built for ppc64 that *are* built for ppc32? -- dwmw2 -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
