On Wednesday, May 18, 2016 7:11:50 PM CDT Jose E. Marchesi wrote:
Hi Dennis, Tom, Mark.
In short: Philip "Bryce" Copeland and myself want to resurrect the
Fedora SPARC port and turn it into a multilib 64-bit sparc distro
supporting the latest SPARC hardware.
We will be using what we published in Oracle's Linux for SPARC [1] but
we will be targetting the latest Fedora.
How can we start?
Should we reuse the existing sparc port, or create a new sparc64 port?
I am not familiar at all with the Fedora project. Should we create
accounts somewhere? I guess we should subscribe to
sparc@lists.fedoraproject.org...
Are there other lists/resources/guidelines/etc we should be aware of?
Thanks!
[1]
https://oss.oracle.com/projects/linux-sparc/
Including the fedora release engineering list and Peter Robinson who is the
lead for secondary arches.
Given how long it has been since there was a Fedora SPARC port I think the
best bet at this point will be bootstrapping the arch. We have scripts
available for doing so from the bringups of armv7hl, aarch64 and ppc64le. I
would strongly suggest that 32 bit support is dropped on the floor and only
sparc64 is done. we have removed 32 bit from s390, ppc and not done it for
aarch64. I am looking at ways to remove it for x86 arches.
We do not have as much documentation as there could be in bringing things up.
There will need to be a koji hub setup, along with builders. I think I have
actually closed the sparc list, so it would need to be reopened if I did. You
will need to get fas[1] accounts as well as bugzilla[2] all the fedora
packaging guidelines[3] apply. any patches needed should go upstream. kernel
wise we follow very closely upstream.
Personally I no longer have any sparc hardware at all, and given my workload
am unable to spend time on the port, however I am happy to provide guideance
and direction. You can find our architecture support definition and
architecture info from [4] it is an area that does need some love.
Dennis
[1]
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/
[2]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/
[3]
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines
[4]
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures