PowerPC/POWER/Cell Special Interest Group
- IRC: #fedora-ppc on irc.freenode.net
- Mailing List: fedora-ppc mailing list
Members
- Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
- Paul Nasrat
- Peter Lemenkov
- Stefan Posdzich (using a Playstation 3 with Fedora 9)
- Walter Justen
- Adrian Reber
- Karsten Hopp (PowerMac G5)
- Jiri Skala
- Dan Horák (IBM IntelliStation 275)
Latest PPC Fedora release
Latest Fedora release for PPC is currently Fedora 12 and can be found from http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/12/Fedora/ppc/iso/
We're doing composes of the F-15 packages and create bootable DVD isos.
Repositories with the latest packages can be found on our koji hub, the DVD images are currently available in a temporary location. Don't expect to be able to install with these DVD isos yet, we're still in the development/debugging phase and they might or might not work for you. If you want to help out with testing, report any problems with the DVD images on IRC or in bugzilla (make sure to set the architecture to 'powerpc')
Fedora rebuild efforts
There are currently efforts ongoing to recompile all packages and prepare a F-15 release or if we find out that we are too far behind the primary archs to have a F-16 release. This is the current status of the package rebuild:
Rebuild problems, TODO list
- The most urgent problem at the moment is to get the latest version installable (maybe even with some workarounds for problems) so that the installer and bootloader teams can pick up the work.
- The Haskell Compiler (ghc) is not available yet on PPC64. Jiri Skala is working on that and got it to build in mock
- yaboot only available on PPC which means we currently need some hacks for 64bit boot images
- Internal compiler error in latest gcc bugzilla #703888
The PowerPC koji build system
All official Fedora PowerPC packages will be built by the koji build system at the PowerPC koji hub
All non-scratch packages that haven't been deleted by the garbage-collector are available at the package storage, scratch builds can be found for a few days at the scratch repository
Building packages on the PowerPC koji build system
Everyone with a Fedora account can do at least scratch builds of packages on the PowerPC koji build system, package maintainers who can check changes into the git repositories can build updated packages that will later on end up in the distribution.
Doing scratch builds
After running fedora-packager-setup from the fedora-packager rpm
ppc-koji build --scratch dist-f15 yourpkg.src.rpm
These builds will be removed from koji automatically after a while.
'real' builds
'Real' builds will be pulled into the package repositories and into the install images, unless they got replaced by later versions. After running fedora-packager-setup from the fedora-packager rpm
ppc-koji build dist-f15 "$(fedpkg giturl)"
or
fedpkg build --target=dist-f15 (this works only when you have a symlink from ~/.koji/ppc-config to ~/.koji/config)
PPC Shell access for debugging
David Woodhouse (dwmw2) and Josh Boyer (jwboyer) may provide you access to a PPC box for build debugging purposes. Just send them an e-mail with an request and a public SSH key.
Applications/Libraries of Interest
- Mac-on-Linux - virtualization solution for PowerPC
Documentation
PowerPC Hardware
ApplePowerPC
PlayStation
Work needed
Bugzilla
Documentation
- We need step-by-step tutorials describing HOWTO setup Wi-Fi, Apple Bluetooth Mouse and Keyboard, where to find JRE and so on. See the next links (from Ubuntu, Debian and YellowDog):