Alternative Architectures SIG

See also: Architectures

The purpose of the Alternative Architectures family of SIGs is to promote Fedora on a wider array of computer hardware platforms than the two accorded first-class status from the Fedora Project: x86-64 (amd64, 64-bit little-endian x86) and Aarch64 (arm64, 64-bit little-endian ARMv8).

Teams

See also: Arch-specific SIGs

Active

Currently there are active teams for:

ARM (ARMv7)
MIPS (mips64r2: little endian n64 ABI, and mips32r2: little endian o32 ABI)
PowerPC (both big- and little-endian Power64)
s390x (IBM z/Architecture: big-endian n64 ABI)

In formation

The following teams are looking for members:

RISC-V (Note: This architecture is now advocated for by its own SIG.)
X86_32

Defunct

No longer active architectures are:

ARM-hfp (32-bit little-endian hard floating point ARMv7) [official support introduced beginning with Fedora 20, withdrawn upon the release of Fedora 37]^[1]
IA64
SPARC
Parisc

Packaging Issues

Divergence from Primary Architectures

Alternative architecture package trees should be as close to primary architecture package trees as possible.
Packages for alternative architectures should not use older versions, and must not use customized (read, "hacked up") packages.
Where relevant and demonstrably necessary, architecture-specific packages are permitted. (e.g. bootloaders, Xorg drivers, etc.)
Changes to support alternative architectures must be committed in Git for each package.

References

↑ Peter Robinson, "Short history of ARMv7/armhfp/arm32 in Fedora," nullr0ute's blog: Random tech musings from an Aussie living in London, February 13, 2022. Accessed July 21, 2024; archived by the Wayback Machine from the original on February 13, 2022.

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