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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

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On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, David Kowis wrote:
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> 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.
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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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