> > Subject:
> >
> > Re: Fedora 22
> >
> > Sent by:
> >
> > ppc-bounces@lists.fedoraproject.org
> >
> > >> Hi
> > >> We briefly discussed priorities for Fedora 22 and I had taken an
> > >> action item to start an email conversation about this. So here is
> > >> what I would like to see for Fedora 22.
> > >>
> > >> 1) Get the -mcpu and -mtune flags set properly for the LE build.
> > >> Should be -mcpu=power7 -mtune=power8
> > >
> > > done, all packages that honour the Fedora system wide compiler flags
> > > use them, if they don't it's a packaging bug
> > >
> > >> 2) Have a cloud image available
> > >> 3) For BE I would like another subarch. Same packages as the current
> > >> one but tuned for P8.
> > >
> > > you mean in addition to ppc64p7? can't we just switch ppc64p7 from
> > > -mcpu=power7 -mtune=power7 to -mcpu=power7 -mtune=power8?
> >
> > This makes sense to me as it then mirrors what we have in ppc64le and
> > it saves having more targets.
>
> The disadvantage of this would be to cut off users that have Power 7 systems
> and optimized code. So why would people want to optimize from Fedora 21 to
> Fedora 22. You would be taking a big step back in performance. I don't
> want to suggest keeping a subarch for each type of POWER system out there. I
> was thinking of keeping two. So when the next POWER arch that comes out,
> the Power 7 subarch goes away and you would have Power 8 and the new
> Power arch.
>
> >
> > >> 4) Looking into if we can get Docker enabled for POWER. I will send
> > >> out further emails about this as
> > >> soon as I know more about the current development state
> > >> 5) Start the ground work for a workstation release. But I think we
> > >> should target the release for Fedora-23.
> > >
> > > yeah, the deadlines in F-22 won't give us enough time to work on it
> >
> > Agreed, ultimately all the packages are built and as a result it's
> > possible to install and test all the main components of Workstation
> > for those that actually have desktop capable hardware to do any
> > development/testing/debug that is required to ensure all the
> > underlying workstation components and dependencies are in a good state
> > for Fedora 23.
> >
> > It's likely there will be work needed on the X stack components like
> > mesa etc to ensure all is working.
> >
> > >> I seem to remember hearing that there is a quite a lot of work
> > >> involved to get this build going.
> > >
> > > we should have almost everything built (eg. LibreOffice is known to fail
> > > to build), but it's not tested and if broken, it will need to be fixed
> > >
> > > One thing to not forgot is that also the mainline kernel needs to have
> > > the necessary support for the workstation class hw.
> >
> > I think the biggest thing will be the graphics stack. While all the
> > workstation bits are built I doubt they've had wide and varied testing
> > to ensure they're al sufficiently optimised and robust for a good
> > Workstation experience.
Adding 5) update gcc to version 5. Will that be possible? It is my understanding
that the gccgo changes needed to support Docker are in that release