On Fri, Aug 01, 2014 at 09:37:10AM -0400, Anthony G. Basile wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'm email gentoo-dev@ because I'm trying to hit up as many devs as > possible. Hopefully you've seen the recent discussions about what to do > with ppc/ppc64 given the low manpower. Let's get interested people > meeting in #gentoo-powerpc on Monday Aug 4, 2014 @20:00 UTC. If there > are no objections, I'll chair the first meeting so here's the agenda so far: > > 1. Let's reconstitute the team and elect a lead. > > 2. How should we address the low manpower issue. At least two solutions > have been proposed so far: > a. Drop of many stable keywords to ~arch while retaining a core of > stable packages > b. Skip stabilization requests and let the KEYWORDS revert from > stable to ~ by attrition. > > There may be other approaches. Both 2a and 2b have > advantages/disadvantages and their technical problems. > > Anything else?
3. Supported hardare
We might want to reduce the number of systems/profiles we support. For
example, we could drop ppc32/32bit userland and just support
ppc64/{32|64}bit userland.
Here is list from the ppc handbook:
a) Apple NewWorld Machines: Power/PowerPC microprocessors (G3, G4, G5)
such as iMac, eMac, iBook PowerBook, Xserver, PowerMac
b) Apple OldWorld machines: Apple Machines with an Open Firmware
revision less than 3, such as the Beige G3s, PCI PowerMacs and PCI
PowerBooks. PCI-based Apple Clones should also be supported.
c) Genesi: Pegasos I/II, Open Desktop Workstation, Efika
d) IBM: RS/6000, iSeries, pSeries
4. Misc: List what needs to be done?
a) documentation: wiki, handbook, etc
b) ??
Thanks,
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Jack Morgan
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