[SoaS] LiveOS on PPC was: Get Sugar landing page

[Frederick Grose]

On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 5:06 PM, pbrobinson at gmail.com
<pbrobinson at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 9:57 PM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 4:52 PM, pbrobinson at gmail.com
> > <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 9:45 PM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>> On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 4:33 PM, pbrobinson at gmail.com
> >>> <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:


>
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>
> 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:

 879 <http://git.fedorahosted.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi#l879>arch =
rpmUtils.arch.getBaseArch()
 880 <http://git.fedorahosted.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi#l880>if arch in
("i386", "x86_64"):
 881 <http://git.fedorahosted.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi#l881>
LiveImageCreator = x86LiveImageCreator
 882 <http://git.fedorahosted.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi#l882>elif arch in ("ppc",):
 883 <http://git.fedorahosted.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi#l883>
LiveImageCreator = ppcLiveImageCreator
 884 <http://git.fedorahosted.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi#l884>elif arch in
("ppc64",):
 885 <http://git.fedorahosted.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi#l885>
LiveImageCreator = ppc64LiveImageCreator
 886 <http://git.fedorahosted.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi#l886> else:
 887 <http://git.fedorahosted.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi#l887>    raise
CreatorError("Architecture not supported!")

        --Fred
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