 Getting Started with Fedora for Power:
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PowerPC/POWER Special Interest Group
- IRC: #fedora-ppc[?] on irc.freenode.net
- Mailing List: ppc
Members
- Dan Horák (IBM IntelliStation 275)
- Than Ngo
- Mark Hamzy
- Mike Wolf
- Gustavo Luiz Duarte
- Éric Fintzel
- Guy Menanteau
- Michel Normand
- Sinny Kumari
Stable Release, GPG keys
Fedora 32 is the latest stable release of Fedora for Power. It was announced on April, 2020. Please see the release announcement for additional details or Download directly from here.
Fedora for Power uses now primary architectures GPG keys. Check The official Fedora GPG key list for a list of primary/secondary keys per releases.
Release Notes
- Fedora 32 (same release notes as referenced above, not specific for PowerPC) and tests results and known bugs at GA time.
- Fedora 28 is last to support ppc64 (BE) but is EOL
Supported Architectures
Only 64bit machines (little endian Power8 or newer) are supported now; (Fedora 22-28 supported big endian Power5 to Power8).
32bit packages are not available anymore in F22 or newer. The last Fedora release with 32bit boot images was Fedora 17. Although it might be possible to install a 32bit F17 release and then update with the latest F21 packages, this is not supported by the Fedora PPC developers anymore.
Fedora 18 through Fedora 23 also includes several optimized packages for Power7 machines. These will be installed automatically if a Power7 processor is detected. The focus for Fedora 24 and newer is on Power8 or newer hardware and the optimizations for these CPU types are handled through a different mechanism.
Fedora 25 able to be installed also on Mac G5 machine as per https://github.com/masterzorag/G5_ppc64-linux
Fedora 28 is last release for ppc64 (BE) Due the limited resource and clear preference of the ppc64le architecture in any new developments, it was decided that ppc64 architecture will transfer into a maintenance mode where the new features (eg. Atomic Host compose) we plan for ppc64le won't be added, see email for details.
Previous Releases
You can find information about previous Fedora for Power releases at Architectures/PowerPC/PreviousReleases.
Build System & Resources
Koji
Rawhide
On October 29, 2016 announcement was made to merge ppc64(le) koji builds of packages with primary koji.
To make a scratch build of package for ppc64 and ppc64le in Fedora rawhide, run:
koji build --scratch --arch-override=ppc64,ppc64le rawhide yourpkg.src.rpm
PPC Shell access for debugging
Dan Horák (sharkcz) can provide you access to a PPC box for build debugging purposes. Just send him an e-mail with a request and a public SSH key. fedora-infra team is also working on providing easier access to a PowerPC VM for debugging build issues. Once we have it ready, we will update this section.
Bugzilla