On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 10:24 PM, Frederick Grose <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 5:06 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 9:57 PM, Walter Bender <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 4:52 PM, [email protected] >> > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 9:45 PM, Walter Bender >> >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 4:33 PM, [email protected] >> >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> {...} >> >> There are two problems with the Mac platform: >> 1) Linux doesn't support 32 bit platforms from 64 bit EFI systems. >> This is a kernel issue and is the case on all platforms. Someone I >> know at one of the major server companies was going to have a look at >> this for me as all their new servers will be 64 bit and are EFI based >> and while they will only support 64 bit on them they have customers >> that will want to run 32 bit. I've followed up but not heard anything >> back. >> >> 2) Graphics support due to some random way the Mac platform deals with >> its GPU initialisation. This will be fixed for F-14 (and so SoaSv4). >> The patches might also fix #1 but I don't have Macs to test. >> >> # 2 should be in the F-14 beta so testers would be welcome on 64 bit >> and it would be interesting to see if it also fixes #1 as well. > > What about PowerPC Macs? > > These lines from > http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=livecd;a=blob;f=imgcreate/live.py;h=9153e1010b5e8da1bc90c8a8fd5a558840903db5;hb=HEAD > suggest that they were once supported:
Sugar on Fedora PPC runs fine. PPC on Fedora was supported as a primary architecture up until Fedora 12 but its now a secondary arch [1] and I don't know the status of that. I'm not sure what the plans are regarding CentOS 6 support for PPC. I believe RHEL-6 will support the platform. If there's a CentOS 6 PPC release it will be likely be not much work to support Sugar on that via EPEL as we plan on supporting Sugar on EPEL-6 anyway assuming EPEL is going to support PPC. Failing that.... Sugar will work fine but your somewhat on your own. Regards, Peter [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/PowerPC _______________________________________________ SoaS mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas
