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  • From: Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>
  • To: David Kowis <dkowis AT shlrm.org>
  • Cc: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] State of x86_64^Wppc
  • Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 10:14:30 -0800 (PST)

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On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, David Kowis wrote:
<snip>
The majority of our users are on i486 compatible systems. I've
personally only heard requests for ppc ISO's from afrayedknot and
sandalle. Sandalle has mentioned that since we "officially" support it,
we should have one (Forgive me if I recall incorrectly.) I believe that

Correct. :)

it would be better to forge ahead with x86 ISOs over ppc support. PPC
support can be added later once the x86 iso has matured. The scripts
will support doing a ppc build, but there are complications with ppc
that are slowing us down. And a lack of testing, which I'm partly to
blame for. I've got a perfectly good ppc on a table in my computer room
that I'm using to test. I could probably sacrifice more time to test
than I have been, however, I'm not a PPC guru so when I test and
encounter problems on the PPC I have no clue how to hack past them. PPC
is completely new to me. We've gotten a shotgun test ISO that tests out
booting of kernels, which seems to be the major hurdle with the PPC,
once we get past that, the rest of the ISO /should/ be fine and the
generation scripts do put together a working installation CD.
<snip>

I would like us to at least try and get a 0.9.5 x86 /and/ PPC ISO out
the door. If the 0.9.5 PPC ISO ends up having issues that our
ISO/Cauldron Team does not have the time/equipment to sort out and no
PPC users come forth to volunteer their time/systems then I'll agree
to /temporarily/ drop PPC until the x86 ISOs are near perfect. :)
After that, then we can look at PPC/x86_64/etc.

As always, feel free to disagree with me. :)

- -sandalle

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Eric Sandall | Source Mage GNU/Linux Developer
eric AT sandall.us | http://www.sourcemage.org/
http://eric.sandall.us/ | SysAdmin @ Inst. Shock Physics @ WSU
http://counter.li.org/ #196285 | http://www.shock.wsu.edu/
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