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 effctively means

Re: Fedora PPC status work in progress :)

2011-04-28 Thread Josh Boyer
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 9:32 AM, David Woodhouse dw...@infradead.org 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

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 for

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 Peter Lemenkov
2011/4/28 Wolfgang Denk w...@denx.de: 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

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 w...@denx.de: 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 Josh Boyer
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 9:15 AM, Phil Knirsch pknir...@redhat.com 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

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 pknir...@redhat.com 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

Re: Fedora PPC status work in progress :)

2011-04-28 Thread Josh Boyer
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

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 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

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 such as well for

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?