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

[pbrobinson at gmail.com]

On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 10:24 PM, Frederick Grose <fgrose at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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:

Sugar on Fedora PPC runs fine. PPC on Fedora was supported as a
primary architecture up until Fedora 12 but its now a secondary arch
[1] and I don't know the status of that. I'm not sure what the plans
are regarding CentOS 6 support for PPC. I believe RHEL-6 will support
the platform. If there's a CentOS 6 PPC release it will be likely be
not much work to support Sugar on that via EPEL as we plan on
supporting Sugar on EPEL-6 anyway assuming EPEL is going to support
PPC.

Failing that.... Sugar will work fine but your somewhat on your own.

Regards,
Peter

[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/PowerPC