On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 5:06 PM, <a href="mailto:pbrobinson@gmail.com">pbrobinson@gmail.com</a> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pbrobinson@gmail.com">pbrobinson@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 9:57 PM, Walter Bender <<a href="mailto:walter.bender@gmail.com">walter.bender@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br> > On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 4:52 PM, <a href="mailto:pbrobinson@gmail.com">pbrobinson@gmail.com</a><br> > <<a href="mailto:pbrobinson@gmail.com">pbrobinson@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br> >> On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 9:45 PM, Walter Bender <<a href="mailto:walter.bender@gmail.com">walter.bender@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br> >>> On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 4:33 PM, <a href="mailto:pbrobinson@gmail.com">pbrobinson@gmail.com</a><br> >>> <<a href="mailto:pbrobinson@gmail.com">pbrobinson@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</blockquote><blockquote style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote"> <div> </div></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">{...}<br> <br> There are two problems with the Mac platform:<br> 1) Linux doesn't support 32 bit platforms from 64 bit EFI systems.<br> This is a kernel issue and is the case on all platforms. Someone I<br> know at one of the major server companies was going to have a look at<br> this for me as all their new servers will be 64 bit and are EFI based<br> and while they will only support 64 bit on them they have customers<br> that will want to run 32 bit. I've followed up but not heard anything<br> back.<br> <br> 2) Graphics support due to some random way the Mac platform deals with<br> its GPU initialisation. This will be fixed for F-14 (and so SoaSv4).<br> The patches might also fix #1 but I don't have Macs to test.<br> <br> # 2 should be in the F-14 beta so testers would be welcome on 64 bit<br> and it would be interesting to see if it also fixes #1 as well.<br></blockquote><div><br>What about PowerPC Macs?<br><br>These lines from <a href="http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=livecd;a=blob;f=imgcreate/live.py;h=9153e1010b5e8da1bc90c8a8fd5a558840903db5;hb=HEAD">http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=livecd;a=blob;f=imgcreate/live.py;h=9153e1010b5e8da1bc90c8a8fd5a558840903db5;hb=HEAD</a><br> suggest that they were once supported:<br><br> <div class="pre"><a id="l879" href="http://git.fedorahosted.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi#l879" class="linenr"> 879</a> arch = rpmUtils.arch.getBaseArch()</div> <div class="pre"><a id="l880" href="http://git.fedorahosted.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi#l880" class="linenr"> 880</a> if arch in ("i386", "x86_64"):</div> <div class="pre"><a id="l881" href="http://git.fedorahosted.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi#l881" class="linenr"> 881</a> LiveImageCreator = x86LiveImageCreator</div> <div class="pre"><a id="l882" href="http://git.fedorahosted.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi#l882" class="linenr"> 882</a> elif arch in ("ppc",):</div> <div class="pre"><a id="l883" href="http://git.fedorahosted.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi#l883" class="linenr"> 883</a> LiveImageCreator = ppcLiveImageCreator</div> <div class="pre"><a id="l884" href="http://git.fedorahosted.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi#l884" class="linenr"> 884</a> elif arch in ("ppc64",):</div> <div class="pre"><a id="l885" href="http://git.fedorahosted.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi#l885" class="linenr"> 885</a> LiveImageCreator = ppc64LiveImageCreator</div> <div class="pre"><a id="l886" href="http://git.fedorahosted.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi#l886" class="linenr"> 886</a> else:</div> <div class="pre"><a id="l887" href="http://git.fedorahosted.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi#l887" class="linenr"> 887</a> raise CreatorError("Architecture not supported!")<br><br> --Fred<br></div> </div></div>