Re: Fedora PPC status & work in progress :)

2011-04-28 Thread David Woodhouse
On Thu, 2011-04-28 at 23:47 +0200, Karsten Hopp wrote: > Creating 64bit images with an additional 32bit glibc just for yaboot is > suboptimal, but seems to work so far. Why does yaboot use glibc? Isn't it built with -nostdlib? The issue was libextfs.a, wasn't it? And didn't we solve that somehow?

Re: Fedora PPC status & work in progress :)

2011-04-28 Thread Karsten Hopp
Am 28.04.2011 20:24, schrieb David Woodhouse: > On Thu, 2011-04-28 at 13:36 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: >> >> >> 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 suc

Re: Fedora PPC status & work in progress :)

2011-04-28 Thread Bill McGonigle
On 04/28/2011 01:36 PM, Josh Boyer wrote: > 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. Just from a demand perspective, this summer Apple will drop sup

Re: Fedora PPC status & work in progress :)

2011-04-28 Thread David Woodhouse
On Thu, 2011-04-28 at 13:36 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: > > > 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. We should

Re: Fedora PPC status & work in progress :)

2011-04-28 Thread Josh Boyer
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Dan Horák 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

Re: Fedora PPC status & work in progress :)

2011-04-28 Thread Dan Horák
Josh Boyer píše v Čt 28. 04. 2011 v 13:20 -0400: > On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 9:15 AM, 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

Re: Fedora PPC status & work in progress :)

2011-04-28 Thread Josh Boyer
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 9:15 AM, 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 package

Re: Fedora PPC status & work in progress :)

2011-04-28 Thread Daniel J Walsh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/28/2011 10:26 AM, Peter Lemenkov wrote: > 2011/4/28 Wolfgang Denk : >> Dear David Woodhouse, >> >> In message <1303997568.2912.117.ca...@macbook.infradead.org> you wrote: >>> >>> There's no real reason you shouldn't be able to update to the F15 >

Re: Fedora PPC status & work in progress :)

2011-04-28 Thread Peter Lemenkov
2011/4/28 Wolfgang Denk : > Dear David Woodhouse, > > In message <1303997568.2912.117.ca...@macbook.infradead.org> you wrote: >> >> There's no real reason you shouldn't be able to update to the F15 >> packages even without an installer, surely? > > Did you try it?  And did it work?  Normally yum wi

Re: Fedora PPC status & work in progress :)

2011-04-28 Thread David Woodhouse
On Thu, 2011-04-28 at 15:47 +0200, Wolfgang Denk wrote: > Did you try it? And did it work? Normally yum will refuse to update > when you try skipping more than a single version. Define 'refuse'. It doesn't even *know*, generally. I *often* update by two releases at a time. Sometimes more. --

Re: Fedora PPC status & work in progress :)

2011-04-28 Thread Dennis Gilmore
On Thursday, April 28, 2011 08:32:48 AM David Woodhouse wrote: > On Thu, 2011-04-28 at 15:31 +0200, Wolfgang Denk wrote: > > > 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

Re: Fedora PPC status & work in progress :)

2011-04-28 Thread Josh Boyer
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 9:32 AM, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Thu, 2011-04-28 at 15:31 +0200, Wolfgang Denk wrote: >> > 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 Fedo

Re: Fedora PPC status & work in progress :)

2011-04-28 Thread David Woodhouse
On Thu, 2011-04-28 at 15:31 +0200, Wolfgang Denk wrote: > > 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. > > Am I interpreting this right that this effctivel

Fedora PPC status & work in progress :)

2011-04-28 Thread Phil Knirsch
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.