Re: ppc64 kernel config changes heads up

2015-06-29 Thread Al Dunsmuir
On Friday, June 26, 2015, 5:40:02 PM, Peter Robinson wrote: If you don't care about powerpc you can stop reading :-) If you do I went to do what I thought was a basic fix up to the kernel builds on POWER to get rid of the last bits of the ppc32 legacy, on my list for some time, and it has

Re: ppc64 kernel config changes heads up

2015-06-28 Thread Al Dunsmuir
On Friday, June 26, 2015, 6:44:15 PM, Peter Robinson wrote: With all due respect, you do realize that several companies actually still manufacture and sell 32-bit PowerPC processors, correct? Do you think this move will be well-met by them? This change only affects the Fedora builds, not the

Re: Remove ppc32 support

2014-05-17 Thread Al Dunsmuir
On Friday, May 16, 2014, 8:07:47 PM, Dennis Gilmore wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 16 May 2014 18:58:14 -0400 Al Dunsmuir al.dunsm...@sympatico.ca wrote: On Friday, May 16, 2014, 4:41:51 PM, Josh Boyer wrote: On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 3:12 PM, Al Dunsmuir

Re: Remove ppc32 support

2014-05-17 Thread Al Dunsmuir
On Saturday, May 17, 2014, 4:23:27 PM, Al Dunsmuir wrote: On Friday, May 16, 2014, 8:07:47 PM, Dennis Gilmore wrote: Unlike ARM, ppc64 does support user processes running in ppc32 mode (via multi-arch). Do the current (up to today) ppc32 builds run on ppc32 hardware, or do they run

Re: Remove ppc32 support

2014-05-16 Thread Al Dunsmuir
On Friday, May 16, 2014, 12:22:26 PM, Josh Boyer wrote: The powerpc secondary arch team has disabled all ppc32 builds in koji for F21 and beyond: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ppc/2014-May/002801.html There's little point in keeping support for ppc32 support in the kernel

Re: Remove ppc32 support

2014-05-16 Thread Al Dunsmuir
Hello Josh, On Friday, May 16, 2014, 2:50:15 PM, you wrote: On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 2:37 PM, Al Dunsmuir al.dunsm...@sympatico.ca wrote: On Friday, May 16, 2014, 12:22:26 PM, Josh Boyer wrote: The powerpc secondary arch team has disabled all ppc32 builds in koji for F21 and beyond: https

Re: Remove ppc32 support

2014-05-16 Thread Al Dunsmuir
On Friday, May 16, 2014, 4:41:51 PM, Josh Boyer wrote: On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 3:12 PM, Al Dunsmuir al.dunsm...@sympatico.ca wrote: Because of branding, I would certainly prefer that ppc32 remain under the Fedora umbrella as a seconday-secondary tertiary architecture rather than

Re: Remove ppc32 support

2014-05-16 Thread Al Dunsmuir
On Friday, May 16, 2014, 4:41:51 PM, Josh Boyer wrote: On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 3:12 PM, Al Dunsmuir al.dunsm...@sympatico.ca wrote: On Friday, May 16, 2014, 2:50:15 PM, Josh Boyer wrote: On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 2:37 PM, Al Dunsmuir al.dunsm...@sympatico.ca wrote: On Friday, May 16, 2014, 12

Re: [WIP] Create kernel-core and kernel-drivers subpackages

2014-03-21 Thread Al Dunsmuir
On Wednesday, March 19, 2014, 2:09:15 PM, Josh Boyer wrote: On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 2:02 PM, Bill Nottingham nott...@splat.cc wrote: Josh Boyer (jwbo...@fedoraproject.org) said: 2) A per-arch filter list, because the existing one that works on x86_64 leaves modules in kernel-core on ARM that