Discontinue PPC64 as Alternative Architecture
Summary
After a number of projects dropped support for the big endian ppc64 architecture and our move of ppc64 to "maintenance-only" mode few releases back, now a vital dependency, the Eclipse project, stops supporting ppc64. As a consequence we need to discontinue producing any ppc64 content. This is a long time anticipated step as the upstream focus on the little endian variant (ppc64le) on Linux is well known. My email sent to the Fedora PPC mailing list has few more details.
Owner
- Name: Dan Horák
- Email: <sharkcz at fedoraproject dot org>
- Release notes owner:
Current status
Detailed Description
Fedora will stop producing ppc64 content - binary rpms or composes.
Benefit to Fedora
Without this step Fedora build system would be blocked at some point as some build dependencies couldn't be resolved.
Scope
- Proposal owners: synchronize with rel-engs
- Other developers: none
- Release engineering: #7602 (a check of an impact with Release Engineering is needed) changes in koji, bodhi and pungi configurations are expected
- List of deliverables: N/A
- Policies and guidelines: none
- Trademark approval: N/A (not needed for this Change)
Upgrade/compatibility impact
There won't be composes or updates available for Fedora 29, users are advised to move to the little endian ppc64le variant.
How To Test
- check if no ppc64 rpms or composes are produced
User Experience
Dependencies
none
Contingency Plan
- Contingency mechanism: (What to do? Who will do it?) hire Eclipse developer and convince upstream now, repeat for other projects later
- Contingency deadline: N/A
- Blocks release? Yes
- Blocks product? all, because the build system will stop
Documentation
Fedora 28 was the last that was released with ppc64 content.
Release Notes
Fedora 28 was the last that was released with ppc64 content.